As much as I like the accessibility of the Web than desktop application, there’s still issues. Reliability is one of them. It just happened suddenly that I could not access my gmail account – “Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We’re sorry for the inconvenience”. Well, this is really bad. All my mails and tasks resources have suddenly become inaccessible. Worst, I have no local copy – which means I can’t hardly proceed doing my tasks.
Such situation made me think how redundancy is required – and perhaps, this might be a case that I could try “shadowing” in gmail. Interestingly, I’ve simultaneously experienced another gmail issues: unable to logout in Firefox. Hmm…
Here’s the reply from them:
From: Gmail Team [mailto:gmail-support@google.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 9:07 AM
To: AlbertTanutama, Hardy
Subject: Re: [#21951281] gmail account
Hello,
Your Gmail account has been disabled due to a technical issue. Our engineers are working diligently to find a solution so that you can regain access to your account. Unfortunately, we cannot offer an exact timeframe of when your account will be re-enabled. Please try logging in to your Gmail account again in a few days.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and we thank you for your patience during our limited test of Gmail.
Sincerely,
The Gmail Team
a pretty quick response from them tho. Just within a minute!
Unaccessible email? Hua! Can’t live without it… Make me think twice to replace my centrin email with gmail
BTW, if only all Indonesian had that experience (Meaning, they really need email)… 