Hi John, I professionally work as a Sr. Network/Cyber Security Engineer for a local county in South Carolina. I am on Linked-in. I acquired a web hosting company that has been in business since 1998. It was formerly UltraHost.US after acquisition, I formed a new LLC and renamed the company to Bright Side Networks in 2019. I have several disaster recovery plans in place should something happen to me. We host over 200 web sites using a data center based in Dallas where I own a cluster of dedicated servers. I have invested quite a bit of money and time making the business grow. If there is more any of you would like to know that doesn't compromise my security, I will gladly answer any questions off list. I welcome those questions. Your concerns are valid and I completely understand them. Kind Regards, Billy -----Original Message----- From: John G. Heim via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2023 2:42 PM To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org>; Billy Irwin <billy.irwin@outlook.com> Cc: John G. Heim <jheim@wisc.edu> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Using Sendgrid as outbound mailer from now No business can respond to every request for info. But groups.io is way more responsive than most. They have a developers forumn that the owner and lead developer is on. Billy, is this a business you are running? What happens to the list if something happens to you? No offense, Billy, but we don't know a darn thing about you. On 5/12/23 12:17, Billy Irwin wrote:
Hi All,
Thanks Chris for the support. I believe I could assist with the migration of the archives or if nothing else we could put them as part of a web site that I too can host. The cool thing too is that the list will have its own IP with good reputation as a part of our subnet that we have. With the filtering I have put in place and the intense work I have put into meeting the requirements of those like Yahoo, we have achieved a 99% delivery rating. It really stinks that Groups.IO isn't responsive to the needs. I think having an online community that we all could contribute too is worth a thought. For those who might not dig through archives that are blind and who want to begin a career in I.T. it would be awesome to have a resource to point them too. I am eager to give back since this group has been a great resource for me.
Best,
Billy
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Nestrud <ccn@chrisnestrud.com> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2023 12:31 PM To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Using Sendgrid as outbound mailer from now
IMO, nothing beats a good provider with a vested interest in the continuation of the list, so I'd think Billy Irwin's suggestion is worth strong consideration. I do think the archives are worth keeping, and the domain is either worth keeping for this purpose or using temporarily to redirect search engines appropriately.
Between the other two mentioned options I'd recommend groups.io. The program-l list is hosted on freelists.org and it has some strange oddities with messages occasionally. I suspect groups.io is better maintained.
Chris
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 02:53:38PM +0000, John G. Heim via Blind-sysadmins wrote:
IMO, this list should be moved to a provider like groups.io or freelist.org. Two reasons:
1. Makes it easier for blind sys admins to find.
2. Would not depend on any one person.
On 5/11/23 13:19, Billy Irwin wrote:
Hi Andrew,
I host several hundred mailman lists and have the reputation established to handle it. I am more than willing to create an account and give you something like lists.domain to run however you wish. You have done a great job hosting this list and I am certainly willing to help give back.
Best,
Billy
-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hodgson <andrew@hodgson.io> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2023 12:58 PM To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Using Sendgrid as outbound mailer from now
Hi.
I've been playing with other systems today and they all rewrite the Message-ID header which make them unusable with the lists. I think I'm going to set up a cheap relay on another cloud provider as for the £20 per month I am paying for Sendgrid its more than the VPS itself and I can pay less for professional list hosting per month.
If it weren't for the list I think Sendgrid is the best option for individuals or if your app is sending out the occasional message for example my Mastodon instance sends out a couple per day.
Andrew.
-----Original Message----- From: Jason White via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2023 5:44 PM To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Cc: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Using Sendgrid as outbound mailer from now
On 10/5/23 18:49, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
Unfortunately a lot of the issues with deliverability comes from how many emails your IP have successfully sent in the past x number of hours. When I ran larger email lists I had absolutely no issues in delivering to the top providers. Its only since the lists moved to a new home I had deliverability issues. That's insightful, thank you. I suppose their argument would be that a substantial volume of messages is needed to collect strong evidence of a server's maintaining appropriate sending policies.
It may be worth noting that Microsoft 365 is now sending DMARC aggregate reports regularly; other large providers were already doing so.
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