Hotmail

[Kevin]

Well, it appears that Hotmail is down, again.

I just try all of our Hotmail accounts and got the same screen.

"The page you are trying to access is temporarily not available or no longer
exists".

I can remember the days when Hotmail actually worked fairly well. The BMSN
days. That is before MSN.

[Sorin Dolha]

The ugly message

"The page you are trying to access is temporarily not available or no longer
exists"

has now changed to

"We apologize, but your account is temporarily unavailable. This delay does
not affect the entire site or relate specifically to your account, but the
machine that holds your account information is temporarily unavailable. We
do not expect this delay to last much longer, so please continue to check
our site for your account status.
We will do our best to make your account available as quickly as possible.
We appreciate your support, and sincerely apologize for the inconvenience."

I appreciate the efforts :)

PS: Now MSN Messenger won't connect either (although a few minutes ago it
did) :)

Sorin Dolha,
http://communities.msn.com/SorinDolhasHome

[Joe Bloggs]

"Kevin" <no...@nbell.com> wrote in message
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Message it's giving says just certain accounts are broken. Seems all my
accounts are down, and all my colleague's too.

Even the "sign up for a new account" is broken.

[Paul Britton Jr.]

Sorin! Why'd you disconnect & reconnect? :P~

Paul

"Sorin Dolha" <sdo...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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[Paul Britton Jr.]

Hello Kevin,

Friends & colleagues reported the same about two hrs ago...but mine
didn't go down until about 30mins ago. They are working on the issue, and
there may be some latency for some time (less than 24hrs) after it is fixed.
Passport logins will also be affected for a time.

Paul

"Kevin" <no...@nbell.com> wrote in message
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[Kevin]

Now that looks a LOT more familiar. >gr<

"Sorin Dolha" <sdo...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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[Kevin]

Both my Hotmail and my MSN, both my wife's, my son's my daughter's and two
of my neighbors. I guess we ALL must be on the same. Either that is a whale
of a coincidence or some one isn't telling the truth.

"Joe Bloggs" <joebl...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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[Kevin]

Sent that before I finished it.

Both my Hotmail and my MSN, both my wife's, my son's, my daughter's, and
two of my neighbors. I guess we ALL must be on the same "machine". Either,

that is a whale of a coincidence or some one isn't telling the truth.

Must be the former. It couldn't possibly be the latter. >gr<

"Kevin" <no...@nbell.com> wrote in message

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[Paul Britton Jr.]

Benjamin Bethel, a Hotmail user from Phoenix, Ariz., looked at the outage as
minor.

"I've found that these days, Hotmail outages are far and few between," he
said. For a free service, I couldn't ask for anything more. I think my
electricity at home is less reliable than Hotmail--that's quite an
achievement. I'm very pleased with the reliability and accessibility of
Hotmail and am even considering paying the $20 annual subscription fee...I'd
pay up to $50 a year for Hotmail without blinking an eye."

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-876888.html

Wow, an article on C|Net with some perspective.

Paul

"Kevin" <no...@nbell.com> wrote in message
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[Kevin]

I take it that you are trying to make a joke.

By the way, it just came back up. And it was really worth waiting for. I had
23 messages arrive in my two Hotmail accounts since the beginning of the
outage. All but one was spam.
I guess we can conclude that the outage was NOT to improve Hotmail's spam
filtering. >gr<

"Paul Britton Jr." <PaulBr...@msn.com> wrote in message
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[Paul Britton Jr.]

Hello Kevin,

It is back up on my end as well. Just two personal messages waiting for
me.

Paul

"Kevin" <no...@nbell.com> wrote in message

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[Jim]

And, anyone could give me $500. a year and I's still not use any brand of msn email for anything serious.

-Jim-
With MSN, failure is not an option.
It comes bundled with the service.

"Paul Britton Jr." <PaulBr...@msn.com> wrote in message news:OaoxorO3BHA.1272@tkmsftngp03...

[Sorin Dolha]

I have some problems with my modem so I had to reconnect :)

"Paul Britton Jr." <PaulBr...@msn.com> wrote in message

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[Joe Bloggs]

Joe Bloggs, a Hotmail user from London, UK, looked at the outage as major.

He pondered over the fact that Passport was also unavailable, and remembered
Microsoft's Passport overview page at
http://www.microsoft.com/myservices/passport/overview.asp
where it details how Passport is a high quality service, 3.5 billion
authentications a month. Given it was unavailable for 12 hours, that's tens
of thousands of failed authentications, with people unable to sign into both
Hotmail, Ebay, Slate, Microsoft, Expedia and dozens of other sites as listed
on http://www.passport.com/Directory/Default.asp?lc=1033

"I've found that these days, many sites on the internet all depend on a
single point of failure : Microsoft's Passport system" he said. "For such a
high profile authentication system, it ought to be more reliable and not
subject to these outages. I don't pay my bank to provide my credit card
authentications, but it always works."

"Paul Britton Jr." <PaulBr...@msn.com> wrote in message

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