.Mac Outages Take Out Mail / Site

A string of system outages on Saturday and Monday have left thousands of Apple's .Mac members without access to email and access to the www.mac.com website.

Six outages have occurred thus far, ranging in duration from "intermittent" access problems to some users being unable to access mail services for up to 12.5 hours, culminating in the entire mail service being down Monday night for "scheduled maintenance".

Apple claims that in most cases just 2% of their subscribers experienced problems, though one incident indicates that anyone attempting to access the www.mac.com website during a three-and-a-half-hour period could have experienced intermittent problems.

I too, am a .Mac member, and have been unable to access my primary email account all day.

And when you work on the internet, that's a problem.