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White House E-Mail Out for Eight Hours

by Peter Mychalcewycz on January 28, 2009 at 07:01 AM

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Certain things should not happen at certain places. For example, an eight-hour, e-mail-crippling server outage should not occur at the White House. Unfortunately for everyone in the new administration, though, that is exactly what happened Monday, reports CBS News.

White House aides had just switched over to their official government e-mail addresses when the outage hit and were immediately forced to communicate either by cell phone or (take a deep breath) face-to-face. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs even apologized in a formal press conference for the administration's inability to adequately communicate. With the new administration scrambling to familiarize themselves with their new home/office, the timing of the outage could not have been worse.

The reason for the outage is unknown and the techs aren't talking. We sincerely hope that this mess is cleaned up quickly. This simply should not happen. [From: CBSNews.com]


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