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

[Bucky Carr]

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 again 
> <https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/spring-cleaning/> for your 
> patience in this important downtime.
>
> -- 
> Maxwell Spangler
> ===================================================================
> Denver, Colorado, USA
> maxwellspangler.com <http://www.maxwellspangler.com>

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