It's been quite a day today and I know extremely frustrating for many of you. I have some details about what has been going on today, what we can expect this evening and why it has taken so long to update this page.

Last things first: We purposely host our System Status site on a different location so if something goes wrong with our core network we can still provide you with updates. Unfortunately, in addition to our own problems, the service which hosts our System Status page was performing maintenance so we were unable to update this page.

Early this morning our main spam filtering system went down. Due to the amount of spam we are filtering these days mail can get backed up quite quickly. While no mail was lost, much of it has been delayed and for several hours. As a way to increase delivery speed we have temporarily turned off spam filtering, until the mail queue empties. We do have backup spam filtering capabilities but unfortunately they can no longer handle the sheer volume of junk that comes in, in a timely manner, so we'll need to remedy this situation.

Web site statistics are also affected at this time. Again, while no data was lost, we'll need to reprocess the logs from last night and then remount that partition so your stats are again viewable in the usual location.

We are still working on some of the problems and I will post an update when things are back and fully functional.

Once again, I appreciate your patience and apologize for the frustration you have had throughout the day.

Tom McDonald