Spam Filtering Statistics

Just a few numbers from some preliminary testing we’re doing on the spam filtering, with the combination of selective rDNS lookups and message scoring. The selective reverse DNS filtering is blocking around 100 messages a minute, or almost 2 messages a second. These are send by infected computers around the world. In addition, the message …

Spam Filtering Upgrades

We have seen spam volume increase by a large amount over the past month. Yesterday we implemented some additional filtering. Some of these filters appear to be a bit over-aggressive. We have scaled back on the filters, and mail should be back to fairly normal as of Saturday morning. If you have bounce messages, or …

Web Services Issue

4:35 am April 2, 2010 – One of the Smile web servers is experiencing a problem. We are working on the problem and should have it resolved shortly.

Smile Internet Limited Technical Support

Smile Internet will have limited technical support from Monday March 1, 2010 until Thursday March 10, 2010. We will still have our standard 24/7 monitoring, however billing and technical support responses may be delayed while some staff are on vacation.