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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 admin [...]
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.
It was definitely a blessed Thanksgiving holiday here at Dogbark. We all had a chance to go and see our families and eat tons and tons of food. As Samuel and I got back into the swing of things in the office this morning he was complaining that something smelled terrible. Naturally everyone walked over [...]
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.
A few days ago I got the horrible news that our token office PC was going to be taken home by a certain Samuel Rainey, M.A in order for him to watch football games, or something ridiculous like that, in his office at home. Don’t get me wrong, I am a 100% Apple Computer guy, [...]
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 to [...]
There are days when you just need to chill out and listen to some good music. When I’m on the road, my iPhone always has the best hits of David Hasselhoff ready to be played. It’s the best music when I’m down, or when I am having a great day. Below is my favorite video, [...]