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AOL Crashes During Maintence

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Matt Clark

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Aug 8, 1996, 3:00:00 AM8/8/96
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Taken from the KRON (http://www.kron.com/) http server:

America Online is off line this evening.A technical glitch has knocked out AOL
leaving more than 6 million customers worldwide
without their e-mail and favorite Web sites.
The nation's largest online service crashed about 1am out timeduring
routine maintenance. The outage is probably the biggest in
online history, said Mark Mooradian of Jupiter Communications, a New York
online marketing firm.
"Good-bye from America Online. The system is temporarily unavailable," was
the message customers got when they tried to log in.
Maintenance is generally done on the system in the middle of the night to
inconvenience the fewest possible members.
"What happened was when we were doing the installation (of new software) ,
we had a technical problem," America Online spokeswoman Pam McGraw said
from the company's office in Chantilly, Va.
She would not disclose the exact problem but said it was different from a
software glitch that brought down America Online's e-mail system for an hour
on June 19.
Yvette DeBow of Jupiter Communications attributed the outage to growing
pains at America Online, which had 5 million members at the
beginning of the year and now has 6.3 million.

Dawn G., hv

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Aug 9, 1996, 3:00:00 AM8/9/96
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In article <4ubbse$s...@ss.netgate.net>, on Thu, 08 Aug 96 00:11:54 GMT,
na...@netgate.net (Matt Clark) wrote-->


>America Online is off line this evening.A technical glitch has knocked out AOL

>leaving more than 6 million customers worldwide...


DAwn Replies----->>>


Whoa... the shape of things to come... we told the folks in Vienna
to decentralise their processing. Sorry... Dulles.

Gee, if *I* were an AOL user, and if *I* depended upon AOL for my
critical business e-mail... *I* think *I'd* be looking for an ISP
just about now.

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mcga...@access.digex.net

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