<p>Anyone else affected?</p>
<p>Yup! Not good…</p>
<p>No gmail for me either. Then it dawned on me to search for “gmail down” so at least I confirmed it wasn’t my computer or Internet access.</p>
<p>down here too</p>
<p>el ditto --seems to have gone way 8-29</p>
<p>Seems to be back now, but, yeah, mine was down at the same time.</p>
<p>I had been having similar outages, difficult access, “server busy” issues with Yahoo for about a year (not to mention all the spam) and was in the midst of transitioning friends and “important”’ email to Gmail.</p>
<p>This isn’t what I wanted to hear…</p>
<p>This is the first time I had gmail trouble. I was not a happy camper, but at least it is back up.</p>
<p>I couldn’t use it either for about 3 hours. </p>
<p>But it still fails a lot less often than Yahoo does. I’m not sorry I switched a couple of years ago.</p>
<p>I’ve used Gmail for years and have NEVER had a problem with it. This was very rare. First time, for me, at least. So don’t worry, eadad…</p>
<p>First time for me on Gmail as well this afternoon. What I find more concerning is that we all seem so reliant on email that there is so much consternation about it, as if none of us can remember what non-instant communication pre-email was all about. Remember your vacation nirvana this summer, when you hopefully divorced yourself from email for a few days?</p>
<p>Folks, you weren’t alone:</p>
<p>[Gmail</a> outage deprives millions of e-mail - CNN.com](<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/01/gmail.outage/index.html]Gmail”>Google apologizes, explains Gmail outage - CNN.com)</p>