Slower than molasses… 
For me too… very very slow today… strange uh?
I wanted to ask the same question…
Hoi Klauwkikker,
Ja de server van Google ligt er kennelijk weer eens uit, soms uren lang en men weet daar niet wat er aan de hand is. Ook meldingen hiervan via Technorati.
polonus
O.K. En nog gefeliciteerd met de openingsknaller van Oranje
no problem here at all with Gmail now-was slow this am…
I got a couple of “unable to login due to maintenance - please try later” messages from GMail this morning so it seems they were experiencing some kind of problem.
Slow, and frequent time-outs when downloading through Thunderbird.
They must have had a server problem. Things seem to be back to normal. 
Yeah … I use to have a problem with gmail. But not since I blocked gmail to end the spam from spammers there.
Charley,
I had an access problem nothing else which has since been cleared up.
I was responding to the title of this thread. ;D
What SPAM ??? I use it constantly and have never received any spam.
Every time I try to log in to GMail today I am getting a “Temporary problem - please try again later”.
Well, Bob, since I have had gmail blocked for several months, I can not give you examples. I can only say that I was receiving unsolicited emails for pharmaceuticals & etc from gmail accounts.
99.9% of that is in the SPAM folder of gmail and will automatically disappear after 30 days or,
it can be simply deleted by using the “Delete all spam messages now” option at the top of the SPAM folder.
CharleyO means he doesn’t have problem with spammers who are using Gmail accounts (or pretending to be Gmail users) after blocking mail from Gmail accounts.
The moral here may be that, generally speaking, it is not recommendable to post comments which are different from the expectation of the original poster although some may find it witty. The tricky part is that a technique behind humor is to betray expectations, though. 
Back to off topic - I guess I am a lucky user who has noticed no problem. :
You will certainly never have spam problems from accounts you block. That much is clear.
I think I am missing the moral here if there is one. No doubt the very eloquent forum participants will clarify their own posts if needed.
Back to the issue … of well not GMail … but Google … I noticed earlier this evening that the “google.analytics” site used as part of the avast forums access was also taking forever and a day to be accessed when trying to browse these forums. On days like this it becomes rather tempting to block the site even if it is used by avast to help them.
I wrote “maybe”, indicating it is mere subjective opinion. However, it is also true that I, myself, was confused by what CharleyO meant for seconds.
Again, I think this is off topic but I use NoScript to block the site as “untrusted” and have no problem here and other Google services.
Me too. Sorry if avast forum uses it…
Yeah, I do not have a gmail account so I am only blocking email from gmail accounts to end the spam from gmail accounts. Of course, this can happen from any such email provider like gmail … though I rarely get spam from Hotmail, etc accounts.