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I Can’t Get to My Gmail

Daniel, ,

I’ve been getting a 502 error on my Gmail account for almost four hours now:

Temporary Error (502)

We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is currently experiencing errors. You won’t be able to use your account while these errors last, but don’t worry, your account data and messages are safe. Our engineers are working to resolve this issue.

Please try accessing your account again in a few minutes.

I just got an email from them (sent to my Yahoo! account, as I specified in an error report/support request):

Hello,

Thank you for your report.

We are aware of this problem, and our engineers are working diligently to find a solution. We apologize for any inconvenience this issue may have caused.

Sincerely,

The Google Team

Anyone else having problems?

[Update 2008.08.07 11:16AM] When my alarm went off this morning I had access to my email.  I went to bed last night around 1AM and it was still unavailable.  So I was without Gmail for somewhere between 12 and 18.5 hours.

I Can’t Get to My Gmail

RIT Alum Email Address

Daniel, , , ,

So I’m pretty anal.

I didn’t sign up for Facebook until about a year ago. I had long since graduated from RIT. Facebook started out as a social network for Harvard students, then it expanded to other colleges. For a while registration required a .edu email address. Even now, in order to identify yourself to others as a student or former student of a particular educational institution, you need to verify ownership of an email address from that school’s domain.

I’m sure I’ve written posts in the past about my RIT email address. I couldn’t wait for it to be turned off. But now that I’m on Facebook, I want that address just so I can identify myself as an RIT alum. Enter: solution.

I think saw a link that pointed to this in Gmail, but I forget, and it’s unimportant. I feel like this is way under-advertised. If you go to https://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/RIT/, you can get yourself an email address @alum.rit.edu. Get it hooked up, go into Facebook, identify yourself as an RIT student, bam.

RIT Alum Email Address