« Worldchanging in the Guardian | Main | The dark side » Follow the bouncing mailI just got an email that said my Gmail address was inactive with Yahoo Groups and gave me a way to reactivate it. The mails were bouncing with an "over quota" message though I've only used 44% of my Gmail quota. Checking Google's forums, I found that many were having the same problem, whcih according to Google has been fixed. Google wasn't saying much; there was actually more and better info at Yahoo 360. Interesting message from Anthony P indicating how complex and difficult Gmail has become: As someone who owns a company that runs a large scale email system, I can definitely sympathize with Yahoo and Google. Our service sends under five million messages a day and we often experience delivery issues that can be nearly impossible to pinpoint. I can't imagine what Yahoo and Google must have to deal with with 10-30+ million emails flying through their system. The general public doesn't understand the work it takes to run a system of Yahoo and Google's scale and the endless maze that merely isolating a problem (not even fixing it yet) can be. jon posted this at 6:40 PM |
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While it's no doubt true that Google and Yahoo have their hands full providing usable e-mail services, I fail to see why the general public needs to understand anything about how complex or hard it is to do.
My experience with Gmail is that it's getting slower. But it's free, so who am I to complain?
Posted by: Bill Anderson | March 27, 2007 7:30 AM