Because of the recent mail/maintenance debacle Blizzard poster Tyren announced that a 1-day game time compensation will be given. Free is Good:

Tyren

As many players have noticed, there have been service issues which resulted in additional downtime over the last two days, and we would like to provide an update as to what the issues [...]

You didn’t actually think you’d get to keep it did you?

Cinterome

We will be performing an urgent maintenance on all realms beginning at 4:00 AM PST. We anticipate no more than three hours of downtime. This maintenance is designed to correct a very recent issue where players were able to obtain certain PvP items without [...]

Apparently when the servers came down for maintenance today the hamsters decided to chew through the wires headed to the mail server. Here’s a blue recap of todays maintenance madness. I’m at work so I have no clue if the servers are back or if so what the in-game mail from Blizzard said.

Bornakk

Update 5:45 [...]

Here is a round of of some blue news from this week. Also, don’t forget the Amazon still has the elusive WotLK Collectors Edition still available, get it while it’s hot!
Official Death Knight forums coming soon?

Netheara

We’ll be opening before too much longer. Never fear. We just want to make sure there are enough fluffy [...]

Today has a ton of things going on. Mainly, all gaming aside, If you live in the US, are of age to do so, and are registered, GO VOTE! Doesn’t matter who you vote for, but voting is one of the biggest powers you have as an American, don’t waste it! You cant use Wow [...]