Michael Shear wrote an entertaining piece for the Washington Post entitled,
E-Mail Outage Forces White House to Operate the Oldfangled Way. Here are a couple excerpts:
Shortly after the workweek began, the tech-savvy Obama administration was hit with a mysterious “server outage” that shut down all incoming and outgoing e-mail for more than eight hours, forcing aides to resort to old-fashioned phone calls and face-to-face conversation…
Starting about 10 a.m. and lasting well into the evening yesterday, most White House aides did not receive a single e-mail. Not on their computers. Not on their BlackBerrys. Instead of the constant ping and buzz of new messages, there was just an eerie silence…
“I haven’t had a less stressful day in five years,” Gibbs joked, pointing at the BlackBerry on his desk and noting that it would make a good coaster.
See Also: The Low-Tech White House
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