Path: news.spamcop.net!not-for-mail
From: Richard W <nobody[at]spamcop.net>
Newsgroups: spamcop,spamcop.help,spamcop.geeks,spamcop.mail
Subject: Release of Spamcop Version 4.6.0-028
Followup-To: spamcop
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:16:21 -0600
Organization: SpamCop

The long awaited new version of SpamCop (v4.6) will being going into
production release Tuesday, August 18, 2009. This means the SpamCop
reporting service and website will be offline and unavailable for
approximately eight hours beginning at 9:00 a.m. PDT.

Emailed spam submissions will be accepted but will be queued for later
handling. When the reporting service is brought back up please expect
several hours of delay as the backlog is processed.

This outage does not affect the SpamCop/CESMail email service.

SpamCop/Cisco-Ironport apologizes in advance for inconvenience to our
users. We would also like to thank the several users who have
participated in the beta testing for the last several weeks.

Richard

Path: news.spamcop.net!not-for-mail
From: Richard W <nobody[at]spamcop.net>
Newsgroups: spamcop,spamcop.geeks,spamcop.help,spamcop.mail
Subject: Re: Release of Spamcop Version 4.6.0-028
Followup-To: spamcop
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:42:18 -0600
Organization: SpamCop


This deployment has now been moved to Wednesday, August 19, 2009. Same
time, same duration, same effects.

...

Looking at the graph and my reporting account, it appears the downtime was nowhere near the 8 hours scheduled. The graph shows the systems coming back online about 17:30 ET (14:30 PT). Messages I submitted at ~16:00 were just waiting for me and reported fine.