Another Yahoo Mail outage resolved
Yahoo has fixed a technical problem that interrupted Yahoo Mail delivery for some users over the weekend. "Less than one percent of users (0.3 percent to be exact) were impacted. The cause was a software issue,"a Yahoo representative wrote in an e-mail on Monday. "The problem has now been resolved. We believe this was an isolated incident."
Temporary outages with free Web-based e-mail systems aren't unheard of. For instance, Google Mail in the UK suffered an outage last May. But Yahoo has had at least three in the U.S. in the last nine months, last June and last July.
"I'm already using my Gmail account for things deemed "non-spam", so aside from Messenger why would anyone stick with Yahoo?" blogger David Binkowski wrote rhetorically during the latest outage.
Elinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service, and the Associated Press. E-mail Elinor.
