Occassional Gmail connection outages

This is the third time I've been unable to connect to Google Gmail in the past month to send a message from Microsoft Outlook Express. It's been "down" this time for about 10 minutes. I'm sure Gmail will be back shortly, but this is the same kind of occasional outage that AOL and MSN used to have years ago before they figured out how to properly put together their email systems.

Actually, Gmail just came back up just as I was about to hit "Send", but the outage is still notable.

And, as icing on this "cake", I tried emailing this post, but it didn't "take" within a few minutes, so now I'm manually posting it.

-- Jack Krupansky