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		gsich on Dec 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google outage – resolved 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.

abluecloud on Dec 14, 2020 [–]

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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