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

[Jeffrey S. Haemer]

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On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 11:56 AM Davide Del Vento <davide.del.vento at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 👍
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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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