June 01, 2006

Good Business

Humpday, 7 Infusion 2006

Being a customer of Computer Tyme has its' advantages. And I am more than happy to be involved (even if only in a small way) with someone who would make this effort:

Dear Computer Tyme Customers,

For a short time this morning we had a problem [snip]

For a more technical explanation, our system rejects more than a million messages a day that are generated by virus infected windows zombie computers. We used to just bounce them at connect time but due to the volume and accuracy of our spam detection technology we are now capturing some of these messages and harvesting them for IP addresses and hash codes and links to fraud sites and working with other services to create cooperative spam blocking services that we all contribute to and draw upon. Through this process we are helping to block billions of spams around the world.

[snip]

Again, sorry about the problem but it is fixed now and it should all be normal.

Marc Perkel
Fearless Leader
Computer Tyme Hosting/Junk Email Filter

Marc is also dedicated to providing web hosting for those who might get rejected by an ISP due to "improper content" as determined by the host. Which, unless you read the fine print, most of them generally can and will do if they decide they don't like what you're saying. I think Marc's policy in this regard is a pretty good thing to aspire to, much less maintain in reality

I would advise you to use Computer Tyme as your host, or at the very least give them a serious look-see, should you be considering a web site of your own.

Posted by (: Tom :) at June 1, 2006 11:59 PM