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Network Maintenance - Atlanta 1, Global Crossing - Oct 6th, 2007

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

On 6th October, starting at 11:00 PM CST, we will be performing network maintenance for our Global Crossing upstream provider from the Atlanta 1, USA data-center, which should take around 2 hours to complete.
Internet traffic may be interrupted for about 30 minutes during this maintenance window for users who use Global Crossing in their route [...]

SPF mail protection

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

Nowadays more and more spam mail is being sent using fake email addresses - Well, it’s fake as far as the spammers sending the mails are concerned but, when it’s your address they’re using, it can mean considerable inconvenience dealing with bounced messages that you never sent and trying to restore your integrity.
SPF (or Sender [...]

Yahoo! goes grey-list

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Yahoo! introduced an interesting concept in mail filtering this week, by introducing a grey-list system to apparently check that mail incoming to their servers is from ‘genuine’ mail servers, and not fake ones set up by spammers using dynamic IPs etc.
It works in such a way that the first attempted mail delivery from an outside [...]