Wagging the Dog(Bark)
sniffing around the Internet

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 worked during both to isolate and block the traffic causing the issue, while maintaining clear reception of mail, so no mail was lost. 

We do apologize for the inconvenience.

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