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 manbirdexperiment wrote:  Oh those pesky tubes.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
maybe a tube burnt out or came loose or something

 Coaxial wrote: 
Yeah.  We're all so screwed.

Some Anti-Google Yanking watchdog group is so watching this thread...

 geoff_morphini wrote: 
Yeah. One of our big customers' website and mail is hosted by a company in Salt Lake City. One of that company's other customers was flagged for sending out spam so our ISP is bouncing any email from that server in SLC, so... they send an email to someone else, it goes thru. Send an email to us, it bounces!

The spammer in question sent 30 emails to the same guy, obviously a mistake, and that's what the hubbub is all about.

edit: I just Googled something out of habit and it worked so ... maybe it was just the high winds tipped over their dish or something.

 geoff_morphini wrote: 
Automated weekend software with nobody in the office to over ride it.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
It is functioning normally here

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
       Funny if true.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
It sounds like you have an overly-protective ISP...

 geoff_morphini wrote: 
Then I suspect our #*!@&^ ISP has it blocked because it believed this morning's report about Google malware.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
That was actually a Google-hosted page.  Here's another article about it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7862840.stm

BTW, I can see Google just fine.

 geoff_morphini wrote: 
I don't know what you're linking to because Google's totally off the radar here now

If I do a search from the Firefox toolbar I get "Directory Listing Denied". If I just try to go to a google page (such as your link above) my ISP captures it like it would if I mistyped the address...

NYTimes article about the outage this morning. Can anyone else get anywhere on Google now?

It looks like it was an "oops" moment over at Google.

 oldslabsides wrote: 
for a minute there I thought you'd started a new thread called ***Yank my Chili***

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Seems like they were installing the new "bad website" warning feature and for some reason it was tagging everything to begin with.

 oldslabsides wrote: 
skeery, huh? I rebooted, ran a virus scan, then a malware scan, just in case.

 bokey wrote: 
New and improved bokeysian filtering algorithm.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Yeah, like what nefarious surfing habit reporting software were they trying out this morning?

Okay, now it works.