NCLUG Server New ISP and New IP Address

[Sean Reifschneider]

For those about to lose IP reputation, we salute you.  Hope it went well!

Sean

On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 10:42 PM Bob Proulx <bob at proulx.com> wrote:

> Tomorrow, Friday 3/10 our NCLUG server is switching ISPs and getting a
> new IP address as a result.  We are switching to Fort Collins
> Connexion Business fiber.
>
> This is not anything that should cause any NCLUG reader of this
> mailing list problems.  But a lot of ISPs and email service providers
> keep an internal database of "IP Reputation".  Changing IP addresses
> means that we are going to initially start off with an unknown
> reputation.  Things might be a little wonky until the reputation is
> "warmed up".
>
> Google for example scores messages that are read as being good and
> messages that sit unread as being not so good.  Therefore it would be
> nice if the next few messages from the mailing list all get read.  And
> if they are sent to the Spam folder that people correct the scoring
> that they are not spam then that will help validate our new IP
> address.  Thanks for your help!
>
> The plan is for things to switch over late Friday.  But if there are
> problems this might slip until Saturday.  The web site and the mailing
> list will be both be unavailable during the time we are changing
> things.  I will send out an update after we have made the switch over
> with hopefully an update that everything went swimmingly.  But it's
> also possible there will be a tale of sadness and woe.  Let's hope for
> rainbows and unicorns though! :-)
>
> Bob
>
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