Planned Maintenance Window - Reporting only March 12, 2009 now March 26, 2009 now ???

[Lking 0]

Not to spread rumors, but

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

[Wazoo 0]

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

[Wazoo 0]

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

[Lking 0]

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

Richard

edit for those in other parts of the world 1400 PDT (UTC-7)

[Lking 0]

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

Oh well. I guess it was a rumor.\

Moderator Edit: placed 'actual' newsgroup post content into this post.

Edited March 19, 2009 by Wazoo

[Lking 0]

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

And we start the countdown again.

[Lking 0]

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

tick, tick, tick...

Edited March 26, 2009 by Lking