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Title: gmail and slashdot unavailable...
Post by: offroadgeek on July 19, 2004, 01:58:58 pm

I just find this kind of wierd... maybe it's just me.  But at this moment, I'm getting an error when trying to access gmail

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Server Error

Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience.
And I'm getting the following error when trying to get to slashdot:

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503 Service Unavailable

The service is not available. Please try again later.
I'm sure it's all unrelated.. but is something strange going on?

Title: gmail and slashdot unavailable...
Post by: offroadgeek on July 19, 2004, 02:07:57 pm

nevermind... I'm a retard... I just cleared everything in firefox and relaunched it... and they pull up know...

maybe it was a local proxy issue

Title: gmail and slashdot unavailable...
Post by: stupkid on July 19, 2004, 02:31:19 pm

Gmail?  Don't you know that Gmail is creepy:

http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/ (http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/)

Title: gmail and slashdot unavailable...
Post by: offroadgeek on July 19, 2004, 02:40:14 pm

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Gmail?  Don't you know that Gmail is creepy:

http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/ (http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/)

that was an interesting read, thanks

Title: gmail and slashdot unavailable...
Post by: markw on July 21, 2004, 05:36:15 pm

Gmail is the best email program around. Anybody who knows something about computers knows that gmail does NOT read inside your email, its just a bunch of lies. If they did read inside your email they would be breaking the law. I  have gmail and all they do is search for keywords (a computer does this; based on the page your viewing.) and display adds based on those keywords.