News
Problems with Microsoft’s Hopelessly Inept Spam Filtering - UPDATED 2021-11-01
Last week we started receiving reports from customers that Microsoft is rejecting all EMail from our servers. We are aware of the issue and, while we regularly monitor spam...
Continue Reading
Aliant/CloudMark EMail issue - RESOLVED - UPDATED 2020-10-29
UPDATE 2020-11-17
Both Aliant and CloudMark have continued to ignore our repeated requests to provide any valid reason for why they blocked all mail from our server for almost...
Continue Reading
SSL & Google Chrome “Not Secure” Warnings
Google announced some time ago that their Chrome web browser would begin showing a \"Not Secure\" notice in the address bar, when viewing any site that doesn't use an encrypted,...
Continue Reading
GMail Filters Flagging Legitimate EMails as “Dangerous”
For more than six months now, since Novembe 2019, GMail has repeatedly been blocking legitimate EMails from us, and consistently ignoring all of our requests that they fix the...
Continue Reading
Google Knowingly Distributing Malware AGAIN - 7 days (and counting)
In the past, we've written about a previous incident where we noticed malicious files that were being hosted on Google drive, and distributed via links in spam EMails...
Continue Reading
Wrong Website and/or Company
If you've been sent to this page, it's because you sent us a message intended for a different company - most likely Smarty Plus or Smarty Pants Vitamins.
We have NO...
Continue ReadingAlan Ralsky Spam King Sentencing?
According to dozens of news stories filed in June 2009, Alan Ralsky and a half dozen of his associates pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering charges related to tens of millions...
Continue ReadingSpam Crisis in China
More and more of the rising tide of spam landing in my inbox - and I suspect in yours as well - has an association with China and generally not a good one.
While Spamhaus.org still...
Continue ReadingFacebook Phishing Scam with Canadian Connection
One of today's widely distributed junk emails is a Facebook phishing scam - Subject: Facebook Update Tool - claims that "Facebook will be implementing a new login system that will...
Continue ReadingCalling all Anglican mysoginists and homophobes: become an official Catholic
I write this with all due respect to my Catholic friends, family and colleagues.
In the news today: "Pope Benedict XVI offers a home to Anglicans who have broken with their church over...
Continue ReadingWhen Media Consolidation Goes Bad
In Monday's Globe & Mail, two full pages in the first section battled it out for the public's vote either for or against carriage fees for TV content by cable and satellite companies....
Continue ReadingAnother Home-Grown Spammer - hgmi.ca
It seems that every time I go on the road - which is when I turn on my cellphone - another local company decides to start spamming me.
The latest: Help Group Management (hgmi.ca) of...
Continue Reading
Problems with Microsoft’s Hopelessly Inept Spam Filtering - UPDATED 2021-11-01
Aliant/CloudMark EMail issue - RESOLVED - UPDATED 2020-10-29
SSL & Google Chrome “Not Secure” Warnings
GMail Filters Flagging Legitimate EMails as “Dangerous”
Google Knowingly Distributing Malware AGAIN - 7 days (and counting)
Wrong Website and/or Company
Linux and Windows web hosting plans start at just $7.95/mo.