NTL email floored nationwide, The Register, 24 Feb 2005

“Many of NTL's 1.4m internet punters are without email today following technical problems at one of the cableco's data centres in Winnersh near Reading. A spokesman for the UK's largest cable company was unable to provide exact details of the snag. However, he confirmed that the glitch is affecting NTL's internet customers nationwide. As a result, punters are unlikely to be able to access email although web browsing is understood not to be affected by the outage. Punters began suffering intermittent email problems two days ago but matters worsened overnight.�

Full story at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/24/ntl_email_snafu/