RW wrote:
> Planned Maintenance Window - Thursday, March 12, 2009
>
> Scheduled server maintenance and software upgrades will be taking place starting at 2:00 p.m. PDT
> Thursday, March 12, 2009. During this time the SpamCop Reporting Service website may not be
> available for a period of up to two hours in duration. Emailed spam submissions will be accepted,
> but processing will be delayed during the maintenance process.
>
> This will not affect the SpamCop/CESmail email service, newsgroups or forums.

This is the awaited upgrade to SC v4.5 :-)

Richard

Due to some unexpected hardware problems, this maintenance/upgrade has
been delayed until Tuesday March 17. Probably around the same time, but
will update once we know for sure.

Richard

> v4.5 - does it fix anything? Does it improve anything?

The upgrade will be virtually transparent to the users, though it will
fix the nagging copyright notice :-)

Mostly it fixes some things that will provide behind the scenes
stability and also gives us some tools to tweak some things we couldn't
tweak before. It incorporates fixes for a long list of bug reports
we've been reporting for quite a while.

In the last year or so Ironport has gone away from hot patches, instead
stacking things into version builds, unless it is a critical issue.
These go through extensive beta testing before going live.

Those that have been around for years will remember the infamous hot
patches that would break things severely, sometimes for days at a time.

Richard

The maintenance has been rescheduled from today to Thursday. I do not
have the exact time yet -- I will update you when I do.

Please propagate as needed.


Ellen
SpamCop

Anyhow, it's been announced it'll be 1400 PDT. Same time, same place, just different day.

Richard

From: Ellen <nobody[at]spamcop.net>
Newsgroups: spamcop,spamcop.geeks,spamcop.help
Subject: Cancelled: SpamCop 4.5.0-084 Release
Followup-To: spamcop
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:27:06 -0400
Message-ID: <gpu6c1$dfq$1[at]news.spamcop.net>
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:28:01 +0000 (UTC)
Xref: news.spamcop.net spamcop:171202 spamcop.geeks:28357 spamcop.help:94927

This maintenance is going to be rescheduled. I do not have a new date/time yet.

Subject: SpamCop 4.5.0-084 Release

Ellen
SpamCop

From: RW <nobody[at]spamcop.net>
Newsgroups: spamcop,spamcop.help,spamcop.mail,spamcop.geeks
Subject: Scheduled Maintenance Thursday March 26, 2009 - (SpamCop 4.5.0-084
Release)
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:28:05 -0600

Let's cross our fingers this is finally going ahead.

Scheduled server maintenance and software upgrades Thursday, March 26,
2009, starting at 2:00pm PDT. During this time the SpamCop Reporting
Service website may not be available for a period of up to two hours in
duration. Emailed spam submissions will be accepted, but processing will
be delayed during the maintenance process.

This will not affect the SpamCop/CESmail email service, newsgroups or
forums.

Richard

From: RW <nobody[at]spamcop.net>
Newsgroups: spamcop,spamcop.help,spamcop.mail,spamcop.geeks
Subject: Re: Scheduled Maintenance Thursday March 26, 2009 - (SpamCop 4.5.0-084
Release)
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:09:24 -0600

AFAIK everything is still a go and this process will be starting in a
couple of hours. Visitors will see the SpamCop reporting website in
"Maintenance Mode" through the process.

Emailed spam submissions will still be accepted, but processing will be
delayed. It will no doubt take a few hours to catch up with the backlog
when things are brought back up.

Richard