mail-to-blog not working?

Before heading down to Mom's, in the middle of rural Ontario, still using dial-up, via her blue iMac, with a version of Mozilla I cannot upgrade further under OS 9, I reconsidered how I might update my blog. I surfed into blogger.com and started rummaging around the help. My vague recollections of using FTP proved unfounded (actually, I had misread it earlier). But I did learn about using email. Which sounded quite cool. And made perfect sense. This feature lets people blog from the palmtop, wireless, perhaps during a vacation, nightly in a big walkabout, or from one's bicycle. Who knows!

I tried it. And got, immediately, a mildly cryptic email response: the entry cannot be posted at this time. Upon investigation, it looks like a number of people have found this to not be working in the last little while. Good: it's not me. Bad: I will have to post my blog entries later (or via the laptop). Worse: a key feature, it seems, of blogger.com is not working. No one from blogger.com is talking about it. Suggesting it is a big problem. Or they've shut it down.