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Yes it is fair to criticize
This was a preventable mistake, and all preventable mistakes are worth criticizing.

However I think the more important question is whether we are overreacting to what happened. And I think we are. A two hour outage (actually less than that) is not worth the amount of energy we have spent on this issue. There are ways to access your GMail e-mail if you plan ahead, such as by using offline IMAP or by using programs that take advantage of Gears (e.g. Android devices use this). If you are going to make yourself THAT dependent on any cloud service, you had better have a backup plan. And Google makes it very easy to implement a backup plan.

I use offline IMAP on my computer and Gears on my Android phone, and I never noticed that there was an outage. I suppose if I had tried to send something I would have had an issue, but a backup SMTP server would have solved that (and I have one).
Posted by: Michael Kelly   Posted on: 09/02/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Yes it is fair to criticize  Michael Kelly | 09/02/09
Something VERY positive  linuser | 09/03/09
Absolutely  DontSpreadLies | 09/02/09
About effects of the outage on Gmail, perhaps not, but on Google Apps  markbn | 09/02/09
As fair as it is to criticize any company that has an outage.  mlindl | 09/02/09
Yes. Their name is on it.  GuidingLight | 09/02/09
RE: Is it fair to criticize Google for the Gmail outage? [video]  Loverock Davidson | 09/02/09
Fair????? It is your OBLIGATION to criticize them.  DonnieBoy | 09/02/09
Just M$ propaganda  Linux Geek | 09/02/09
Huh?  rtk | 09/02/09
yeah, but  Linux Geek | 09/02/09
And just guess what OS Google uses on its servers?  ths40 | 09/02/09
He is not an  GuidingLight | 09/02/09
Ah, you mean...  mgp3 | 09/02/09
RE: Is it fair to criticize Google for the Gmail outage? [video]  JRGuzzetta | 09/02/09

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