FYI... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: An Announcement Regarding The Monkeys.Com Proxies List Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 05:27:37 -0000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronald F. Guilmette) Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
As some of you may have noticed, the proxies.relays.monkeys.com anti-spam DNS zone file has been basically empty and devoid of any content for the past several days. This was by intent. I have had to deal with some unexpected and urgent family issues over the past several days and I knew that I would not be present or able to properly process removal requests for some time, so I opted to simply empty the zone for the time being in order to avoid a situation where the owners of formerly open proxies that had been properly closed would not be able to quickly get their IP addresses removed. The issues that called me away from my desk are not entirely re- solved at the present moment, however with luck they will be so soon. Regardless of that however, I have decided that it would be best for me to keep the Monkeys.Com open proxies list down (with is to say up and running, but empty of any entries) for approximately the next two weeks in order to allow for some much needed retooling. The Monkeys.Com proxies list has been in operation for over eight months now, and this initial period has allowed me to gain a very good understanding on how a list like this should be organ- ized and operated. Unfortunately, the software I have created to date, e.g. for processing list additions and list removals, was never very sophisticated in the first place, and has come to seem even less so now that I've had more experience running the list. Indeed, the major issue that compelled me to empty the zone in advance of my recent unplanned absence was the fact that list removals have never been entirely automated, and the processing of removal requests has required, and still does re- quire some amount of manual processing on my part. Obviously, that isn't good, and this is one of the many aspects of the list- related software that I intend to fix over the next two weeks or so. I apologize sincerely to the many different people and organizations who have been loyal users and promoters of this free service for this brief interruption, and for my failure to announce it in advance. I do understand that this short-term outage will leave quite a lot of sites and people vulnerable to somewhat higher levels of spam than they would otherwise receive, but I ask you all to bear with me while I make some much needed and long over- due renovations. Thank you all for your patience. Please look for another announcement here once the Monkeys.Com proxies list is once again populated and in full operation. Regards, rfg --- [This e-mail was scanned for viruses by Pointshare's Virus Scanning Service] --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
