Living Without Reliable Email Today, Like Our Ancestors the Cavemen

From the Stanford IT site:

4:10 PM: University IT engineers continue to monitor updates from Microsoft. They reported initial progress but have acknowledged setback in the deployment of their remediation. Mail to M365 accounts continues to fail at this time.

1:27 PM: Users continue to experience delays sending and receiving email due to a widespread Microsoft 365 (M365) outage. University IT teams are actively monitoring the issue. Updates are provided on uit.stanford.edu as information becomes available. Thank you for your continued patience.

12:55 PM: Users may experience delays sending and receiving email due to a widespread Microsoft 365 (M365) outage impacting several M365 services. University IT teams are actively investigating the issue and will share updates as more information becomes available.

The problem seems to cover "thousands of Microsoft customers," not just Stanford.

Comments

[darkknight9]

Only real bummer about keeping the ol college email account. If its only one or two days a year, its outshined by the discounts at certain online retailers. 🙂

[Life of Brian]

Remember the good old days, when if your email server went down it was 1) usually because of something you did, and 2) for that reason, usually within your control to fix?

The single points of failure, where large swaths of enterprises get nuked by the poor choices of invisible and generally unaccountable sysadmins with no direct accountability to those enterprises, continue to multiply.

[John F. Carr]

In those days email might have to wait for a telephone connection to be made, sometimes only during off peak billing periods, for each hop in the path from here to there.

In addition to waiting for email, the cavemen also had to pay for phone calls outside of the local calling area. And to make calls from a public place. "And for a dime I can talk to God, dial-a-prayer. Are you there? Do you care? Are you there?" - Janis Ian

[Incunabulum]

This is why you always have a couple blankets, a gallon of water, and a jar of nuts in the office;)