[TriLUG] Question for gmail users, performance problems lately?

[Barry Gaskins]

   I have not seen any slowness at all.  I have not used it with linux in
the last week or two.  Only windows.  Does it only happen on linux machines?

On 6/2/06, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/2/06, Douglas Ward <dward at nccumc.org> wrote:
> > Gmail has crashed a few times for me in the last week or so.  I noticed
> the
> > service has blinkef offline a few times during the business
> day.  Spamcop,
> > vox.schpider.com and sorbs.net have blacklisted it as well.
>
> I've seen occasional gmail outages from time to time although not lately.
>
> The problem I'm seeing is that interacting with the text box for
> entering the contents of mail is painfully slow.  Other text boxes on
> the same browser don't act the same way.  It seems to slow down if the
> text in the email gets past a certain length.
>
> I can't explain this unless they've somehow cranked up the usage of
> ajax, or just javascript, so as to put something in the loop as I'm
> typing.
>
> I haven't seen any evidence of blacklisting.  That's one reason I HATE
> spamcop, and it's ilk, or at least isps who blindly dump incoming mail
> on those lists.  I'm happy to screen my own incoming spam without
> someone throwing out legitimate mail without my knowledge or consent.
>
>
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