Because we have outages nearly every day and sometimes twice a day - according to the .mac system status:

2/10/2007
1% of members experienced difficulties with .Mac Mail for 1 hour. Normal service has been restored.

2/8/2007
.Mac members were unable to access any services. Duration: 1.5 hours. Some .Mac members were unable to access mail on the web. Duration: 1.5 hours. Normal services have been restored.

2/5/2007
1% of members experienced difficulties with .Mac Mail for 2 hours. Normal service has been restored.

2/5/2007
2% of members experienced difficulties with .Mac Mail for 1 hour. Normal service has been restored.

2/4/2007
2% of members experienced difficulties with .Mac Mail for 1 hour. Normal service has been restored.

2/4/07
Due to scheduled maintenance, some members might not have been able to access .Mac Mail for 20 minutes or less between 10pm PST on 2/3/07 and 1am PST on 2/4/07.

1/22/2007
4% of members experienced difficulties with .Mac Mail for 3.5 hours. Normal service has been restored.

1/21/2007
4% of members experienced difficulties with .Mac Mail for 30 minutes. Normal service has been restored.

1/16/2007
3% of members experienced difficulties with .Mac Mail for 10 hours. Normal service has been restored.

1/15/2007
3% of members experienced difficulties with .Mac Mail for 45 minutes.

1/11/2007
2% of members experienced difficulties with .Mac Mail for 2 hours.

1/10/2007
3% of members experienced difficulties with .Mac Mail for 1 hour.