June 1 06: Was you email delayed on AOL?

Here's why

[engine]

Internet service AOL said on Thursday it had resolved a software problem that delayed the transmission of millions of e-mails since the late morning. Many AOL members had been unable to send or receive new e-mails since 11.00 a.m. Eastern Time.

In the interim, AOL was queuing messages that already were sent to relay them quickly once the problem was solved.

AOL said later on Thursday that the ability to transmit had been restored. The company was in the process of sending e-mails that it had stored in its queue during the day at the rate of 500,000 messages per minute, company spokesman Nicholas Graham said.

Email delayed on AOL? [today.reuters.co.uk]

500,000 per minute! Huh! I thought I had lots of e-mail. ;)

[Essex_boy]

499,999 were apam

[bhartzer]

Uh, if you have an AOL email account there's not much of a chance that you're reading these forums. Maybe it's just me but I get the impression that the typical AOL user isn't that "web savvy".