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Staying at the forefront of email security and reliability

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Re: Staying at the forefront of email security and reliability

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I'd like to see Google evangelize and hand out to their competitors, no strings as with SPDY, any technology they develop or contribute to that helps people communicate securely, and their competitors doing that as well.

What tech would you like to see open sourced?

Re: Staying at the forefront of email security and reliability

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> In 2013, Gmail was available 99.978% of the time, which averages to less than two hours of disruption for a user for the entire year. Does anyone understand why they use the term "averages" in this statement? What is being averaged? Isn't it just 0.022% * minutes in a year.

I think this means not all outages tracked affected all users equally. Some users would have seen more or less downtime than the 2 hours mentioned.

You are probably right. In which case they should also mention that 99.978% is also an average.
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