AOL suffers major 'meltdown'

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AOL's service was hit by a major "meltdown"
last night leaving millions of Net users unable
to access email or the Web.

The monster Internet company blamed the incident
on a major power failure which hit Northern Virginia
(where its operation is based) at around 7.30pm (GMT).

The Register

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), April 06, 2001

Answers

Major meltdown with Computserve for the last two days. I think ComputServe and AOL are somehow related.

-- David Williams (DAVIDWILL@prodigy.net), April 06, 2001.

AOL bought Compuserve several years back and both have their servers in the same place. In fact, compuserve and AOL e-mail servers are the same.

-- Jackson Brown (Jackson_Brown@deja.com), April 06, 2001.

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