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Hey folks,

I just received the following notice from Jeff, the guy in charge of 
the SpamCop Email Service, who requested that I posted this 
notification to the SpamCop Digest.

If you have any questions, let me know, and I'll either answer them 
myself, or refer you to where you can ask them.

Cheers!

>This was just posted to the news page. I think it, or an excerpt, would be
>appropriate for the SC Digest. Not mentioned here is that this only affects
>email and news. The reporting service will be available as usual. That should
>be in the digest.
>
>Thanks
>Jeff
>
>>We're moving! After nearly a year, we have outgrown the facility where the
>>SpamCop Email Service is hosted. So, we have to move. The existing 
>>servers will
>>be packed and hand-carried to the new facility on Sunday September 22. There
>>will be a significant downtime while the servers are moving as we're moving
>>from Tampa to Atlanta. Expect the service to go down around 9:00 a.m. and
>>return around 5:00 p.m. EDT.
>>
>>This move should have significant benefits in both bandwidth and reliability
>>for us. At our current facility, we're on copper-based circuits. At the new
>>facility, we are on a node of a SONET ring which runs around the north metro
>>Atlanta area. (See the North Fulton ring map.) This gives us SONET 
>>reliability
>>and BGP4 routing directly into Internap, the large private peering point in
>>Atlanta. Additionally, the facility and the fiber provider are only using a
>>small fraction of the available bandwidth, so there will be no 
>>problem keeping
>>up with demand. Our available bandwidth will jump as soon as we 
>>move and we can
>>purchase more in 24 hours, unlike at our present facility.
>>
>>We're excited about the move but we know that the downtime will be 
>>annoying for
>>some. Rest assured that we've planned ahead to make sure that the 
>>process is as
>>smooth as possible to keep downtime minimized. If you can't tolerate any
>>downtime, make arrangements to temporarily stop forwarding email on 
>>Sunday the
>>22nd. We will not be POPping any accounts during the downtime. If we normally
>>POP your mail, you can POP it yourself, you'll just get all the viruses and
>>spam. Any changes or updates will be posted here. If you have any questions,
>>please use the contact form.
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Pete Stephenson
HeyPete.com