Tuesday, April 15, 2003

New DNS provider We're paying Network Solutions $50 a year to handle DNS and MX services for Server.com. It's a great relief. We used to outsource the DNS and MX to another company, but they decided that we were getting too much spam and dropped us without warning. Other companies wanted to charge based on traffic (which would have been hundreds of dollars per month) or had conditions that our service could be taken away without warning if we were suspected of sending spam. When you host thousands of mailing lists, you have to deal with spam complaints on a daily basis. Mail service providers like Yahoo are making it easier to report mailing lists as spam rather than unsubscribing. 3:20:35 PM    comment []

Is there bad blood between UPS and the USPS? For over a year, our mail has been handled by Mail Boxes Etc which is now The UPS Store. They would receive all of our mail and then bundle it up once a week and mail it to our home location via USPS Priority. Up until a few week ago, there were no problems, but two of the last three mail drops have gone missing. No one has an explanation. The UPS Store we deal has stated that they will send packages to us via UPS Ground which is trackable. They say it will cost about the same as USPS Priority. Update - We got the latest package, much later than usual, though.   7:16:49 AM    comment []