The short version of the Valentine's Day texts:
A company named Syniverse, which provides networking services, later took blame for the messages being delayed. Syniverse said a single server was at fault: that server failed on February 14th, trapping messages waiting to be sent out; the server was only brought back online on November 7th. When that happened, all of the messages were finally delivered.
I used to manage a small ISP. Every now and then we'd find a machine turned off. Why is it off? Dunno. Who turned it off? Dunno. Well, turn it on.
And sometimes then you'd remember why it was off.
