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Re:Google outage – resolved by gsich on Monday December 14, 2020 @09:08AM (#25417653)
Down because email attachments are base64 encoded files written in plaintext into the body. So if those are not working, email itself is not working.
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Re:Google outage – resolved by abluecloud on Monday December 14, 2020 @09:26AM (#25417868)
that was a bad example. i guess the comment was trying to say "how do you account for partial service degradations".

(i dont think SLAs are BS btw)

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