[lug] BLUG email is working again. Thanks for your patience!

[Davide Del Vento]

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On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 10:59 AM David L. Willson <dlwillson at thegeek.nu>
wrote:

> I'm happy to say it would be surprising with BLUG.
>
> I wish it were surprising when any group nominally about free software
> casually chooses and even promotes proprietary software, but it's not,
> anymore.
>
> I wish it were surprising when groups claiming free software ideals are
> intolerant of and abusive to the weirdos who have done the work to define,
> protect, and promote it. But, that's not surprising, anymore, either.
> Still, it's disappointing.
>
> BLUG, though, seems to be populated exclusively by smart, kind, principled
> people. I know that's technically impossible; we're all some blend of
> enlightened and brutal. Still, BLUGgers seem more likely to delight than to
> disappoint.
>
> Today seems like a good day to say, "You don't need to kill your heroes."
>
> ... They're going to die, anyway. You can choose to be kind while you and
> they are passing through life.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bucky Carr" <bcarr at purgatoire.org>
> To: "BLUG" <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>, "Maxwell Spangler" <
> lists at maxwellspangler.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 2, 2021 8:52:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [lug] BLUG email is working again. Thanks for your patience!
>
>
> I was sucked in until you said, "the Outlook servers that power this
> list." Right, a Linux list hosted on a M$ server. Uh huh... Then I noticed
> the date.
>
> :)
>
>
> On 4/1/2021 7:43 PM, Maxwell Spangler wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Just wanted to let you know, BLUG Email is working again.
>
> Happy to say that our annual internet cleaning which happens about this
> time each year went very well, for us.
>
> Completed the usual tasks:
> - Flushed out all the incoming email which was from blacklisted domains
> - Cleared out lots of outgoing email to recipients that no longer exist
> - Put in some new anti-spam filters based on recent covid related scams
> - Upgrade the Outlook servers that power this list.
>
> Unfortunately some other companies had a rough day. Microsoft Azure got
> most of the way through its annual cleaning, but the high pressure fluid
> used to clean one of their 96" main pipes into their Seattle data center
> burst and they're still trying to repair it. Publicly, they're reporting
> "DNS issues". Best wishes to them to get things fixed up before dark.
>
> Thanks [ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/spring-cleaning/ | again ] for
> your patience in this important downtime.
>
> --
> Maxwell Spangler
> ===================================================================
> Denver, Colorado, USA
> [ http://www.maxwellspangler.com/ | maxwellspangler.com ]
>
>
>
>
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