We’ll be doing some work on our mailserver tonight, so it’ll shut down for about a minute or so. The work will improve performance for all services, including POP and webmail. If you happen to be checking mail between 11 pm and 12 am Central time, and get an error, wait a few minutes, and [...]
If you’ve called in this week, you may have spoken with Lee. While Adam is bumming around the Bahamas this week, Lee is graciously filling in.
We’ve had two mail server outages today: one for about 45 minutes at roughly 8:30 AM Eastern, and one for about 20 minutes this afternoon at 2:40 PM Eastern. Both outages were due to an attempt by spammers to overload our mail server. This is commonly known as a Denial Of Service attack. Our systems [...]
Our colocation facility has notified us of a planned maintenance window that will upgrade their router and firewall system. This, in turn, should provide even better throughput for our services. The network is anticipated to be down for approximately 30 minutes at 1AM CDT, this Friday, March 6.
This is an oldy-but-a-goody. You may wonder why so many junk messages have an image in the contents, usually not attached. There are two reasons:
You may have noticed a severe drop in the amount of spam coming through to you. Two things have factored in to this wonder: our filters are continuing to learn the new profiles coming in, and a data center in California that was a major source of spam was shut down on Tuesday, 11/11.
We’ve all been there — staring at an unreal number of junk messages, wondering “who clicks through on this stuff? How do these guys make any money?” Well, researchers at UC-Berkeley and UC-San Diego have published a study saying that spammers get, on average, an estimated 1 response per 12.5 million messages. Amazing. Click here [...]
So, I’m giving Flock a shot. It’s a specialized build of Firefox, geared for social networking sites, and has some pretty interesting features. Right now, I have my Facebook and Twitter accounts set up, as well as a couple of blogs I run with WordPress, and my Flickr account. All show up in the sidebar, [...]
This is a really creative way to deal with frustrations about spam – design a building with it! Spam Architecture (thanks BoingBoing)
Beware of any email you receive that claims to be MobileMe (Me.com) with a billing issue for your account. With the wave of new iPhone users and Mac coverts, Mac users are becoming a larger target for the “black hats” out there. If you do receive such an email, remember that the safest option, rather [...]