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Short Take: AOL suffers partial outage

America Online suffered a partial outage Tuesday that kept users from logging on between 9:50 a.m. and 10:20 a.m. PT. An undisclosed percentage of AOL members could not send email until noon. An electrical malfunction caused the outage, according to the service. Other features, including chat rooms and newsgroups, also were affected.

Paul Festa Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Paul Festa
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Paul Festa
suffered a partial outage Tuesday that kept users from logging on between 9:50 a.m. and 10:20 a.m. PT. An undisclosed percentage of AOL members could not send email until noon. An electrical malfunction caused the outage, according to the service. Other features, including chat rooms and newsgroups, also were affected.