[time-nuts] New servers

[John Ackermann N8UR]

febo.com is on a dedicated server that hosts only itself and a few ham
radio websites.  It's under my control, and the IP isn't shared with
anyone else.

John
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Joseph Grossbauer said the following on 10/13/2008 11:11 AM:
> As a system administrator I'm not a big fan of Server Beach because of their
> letting spammers slide but I did check the IP address of the list on
> mxtoolbox.com and it came up perfectly clean.
> 
> Joe, WA9MSD
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
> Behalf Of John Ackermann N8UR
> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 08:30
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] New servers
> 
> Yes, we're now running on a dedicated server at ServerBeach, which is
> also where tapr.org has been hosted for two or three years (and we've
> had very good luck with them).
> 
> I'm not sure where your info came from, but ServerBeach (these days,
> anyway) appears to be very reputable.  They're owned by Peer One.  They
> also were the original hosting company for YouTube (until Google bought
> them).
> 
> I did a quick search on "ServerBeach" and "spam" and the top relevant
> hit was an article from 2003 when SB shut down a customer in response to
> SPEWS complaints, which took down a bunch of innocent sites; it was
> reported in the NY Times.
> 
> The mailing list software does unsubscribe after a number of bounces,
> but it uses an algorithm that requires more than a short outage, so you
> should be OK.  But if you receive an unsubscribe notice, you can
> resubscribe -- it won't prevent that.
> 
> John
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> 
> Bruce Lane said the following on 10/13/2008 02:07 AM:
>> 	I just found a bunch of 'Reject' entries in our mail system's log
> relating to the time-nuts list. The reason for the rejections is that the
> new list server appears to be based with a company called Server Beach.
>> 	The reason Server Beach was blocked is because they did, at one
> time, have a long and sordid history of supporting spammers. I will grant
> that I have not seen a spam attempt from them in some time. Perhaps they
> cleaned up their act, finally?
>> 	I've punched a hole in the filters for now, specifically to allow
> meow.febo.com through, but I'm wondering two things.
>> 	(1) Please confirm: Is time-nuts, in fact, now permanently based out
> of Server Beach IP space, or is that a temporary assignment?
>> 	(2) Will the list drop my subscription because of the rejects? There
> were quite a few of them.
>> 	Thanks.
>>
>>
>> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>> Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
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>>
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