Google Accidentally Wipes 150000 Gmail Inboxes

[techseven]

Maybe I have to much confidence in gmail's reliabilty?

 

[jfby]

I'm very glad I don't actually pay for the service...

 

[casperstouch]

And that is the biggest reason that I do not want all of my stuff on the cloud! I prefer my stuff local where I back them up.

 

[cruiseoveride]

Now this is why I use an email client.

 

[Anomalyx]

12:20 AM - March 1, 2011 - By Jane McEntegart -
Source : PC World
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Google has yet to address the glitch in a posting on the official Gmail blog...

Article addressing the issue on the official gmail blog:

Monday, February 28, 2011 | 6:30 PM

There's also some inconsistent information about the percentage of accounts that were affected. The official Gmail blog says 0.02%, not 0.08%

Either way, go Google for actually caring about such a small percentage of their users having trouble, instead of denying it and saying "you're logging in wrong".

 

[hellwig]

Guess they should have left GMail in Beta a few more years, you know, till they sorted out the more minor bugs like losing EVERY DAMN EMAIL YOU EVER GOT.

 

[dkant1n]

Claiming that the ammount of affected users is small is not a valid argument for this kind of things

 

[dkant1n]

Claiming that the ammount of affected users is small is not a valid argument for this kind of things

 

[asdfghjkl]

POP3 is a good invention.

 

[asdfghjkl]

POP3 is a good invention.

 

[Guest]

This means there are 187.5 million users in Gmail?