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Spam Updates
Dec 2011 14

Spam Updates

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December 14, 2011 – We have introduced yet another blacklist service to our email server.  This one is known as SORBS, and information on it can be found at http://www.sorbs.net/.  It is a very aggressive blacklist, so we may get some false positives at first.  We will be working to whitelist ...
Comcast Outage
Nov 2011 16

Comcast Outage

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November 16, 2011 – Comcast seems to be experiencing a system wide outage in the Gadsden, Alabama area.  The outage started at approximately 12:26 am.  We are working on finding out additional information.  The local system is running fine, but traffice is not able to flow outside of the Tusca...
Planned Maintenance
Nov 2011 15

Planned Maintenance

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November 15, 2011 – AT&T Network Engineers will be performing a planned maintenance on Birmingham-Alabama Access Router 1.  The work will be performed on 11/29/2011, during the maintenance window of 12:00AM-6:00AM, local router time. AT&T’s goal is to successfully complete the ta...
New Phone System
Nov 2011 14

New Phone System

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We wanted to say thanks to the guys at Telsystems for doing a great job on our new phone system.  We needed a system that would let us tie our new annex office to our main office seamlessly and Telesystems really came through to provide it.   Our new system is an ESI with both digital […]...
Additional Email Blacklist
Nov 2011 11

Additional Email Blacklist

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November 11, 2011  In an effort to further curtail spam, we have added two more blacklists to our mail server.  These blacklists are run by Mailspike.  We are now utilizing two of their lists – their reputation data (blocking the IPs with the worst reputation for sending spam) and the zero-hou...
We Are Growing!
Oct 2011 31

We Are Growing!

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We have run out of room in our main office located at 226 South 5th Street.   So, in order to accommodate our growth, we have moved some of our staff to our new annex located at 1041 Forrest Avenue.  Most people will not notice the difference, as our new office is to be used as […]...
New Website Launches
Oct 2011 25

New Website Launches

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Network Solutions, Inc. is proud to announce the addition of Nick Webb as web design manager.  Nick has been working with our company on a contract basis for many years, and we are happy to have him with us full time to lead our new focus on website development.   Coinciding with his new position, w...
Scam Alert
Oct 2011 20

Scam Alert

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October 19, 2011 – We’ve had several reports from our users who have gotten calls from people posing as tech support.  At least one said they were from Microsoft.  These callers are telling people that their computers are infected with spyware and viruses.  For proof, they ask you to go ...
Spam Tagging
Oct 2011 10

Spam Tagging

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October, 10, 2011 – Over the last week or so, we’ve been noticing a higher incidence of “false positives” on our spam tagging system.  The system is partially based on a Bayesian probability system which “learns” what spam looks like.  It seems that the Bayesian p...
Network Outage
Sep 2011 29

Network Outage

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Sept. 29, 2011 10:52 – We are experiencing a network outage which seems to be upstream.  We are looking into the issue and will provide updates shortly. Phones were out briefly as well, but we have gotten them back online. 12:00pm  – We have been informed that the issue with AT&T is ...