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Feb 12
TDYR #098 – To Get Your Content Noticed, Titles And First Sentences Are Insanely Important
In this era of social media, you have a moment to catch someone's attention and get them to click through and read your content. The title and first sentence of your article are *critical*!
Feb 12
New Apache SpamAssassin Release 3.4.0 Includes Native IPv6 Support!
Very cool news out of the Apache SpamAssassin project that the new release 3.4.0 has full native IPv6 support! This is important because SpamAssassin is widely used as an anti-spam tool for email servers. This update nows means that it can be used in mail servers running on IPv6, including on mail servers running in an IPv6-only environment. From the release notes:
Improved support for IPv6
————————-The rules-updating program sa-update and its infrastructure is now usable over either IPv4 or IPv6, including from an IPv6-only hosts (bug 6654).
SpamAssassin is now usable on an IPv6-only host: affects installation, self-tests, rule updates, client, server, and a command-line spamassassin.
Command line options -4 and -6 were added to prefer/choose/force IPv4 or IPv6 in programs spamassassin, spamd, spamc, and sa-update.
Command line options –listen and –allowed-ips in spamd can now accept IPv6 addresses.
Preferably a perl module IO::Socket::IP is used (if it is available) for network communication regardless of a protocol family – for DNS queries, by spamd server side, and by a client code in Mail::SpamAssassin::Client. As a fallback when the module IO::Socket::IP is unavailable, an older module IO::Socket::INET6 is used, or eventually the IO::Socket::INET is used as last resort.
If spamd fails to start with an ‘Address already in use’ message, please install perl module IO::Socket::IP, or deintall IO::Socket::INET6, or specify a socket bind address explicitly with a spamd –listen option. See bug 6953 for details.
The spamd server can now simultaneously listen on multiple sockets, possibly in different protocol domains (Unix sockets, INET or INET6 protocol families.
DnsResolver was updated allowing it to work on an IPv6-only host (bug 6653)
A plugin RelayCountry now uses module Geo::IP and its database of IPv6 addresses GEOIP_COUNTRY_EDITION_V6 when available.
The following configuration options were extended to accept IPv6 addresses: dns_server, trusted_networks, internal_networks, msa_networks, (but not yet the whitelist_from_rcvd), and their defaults were adjusted accordingly.
The parser code of Received header fields can now deal with IPv6 addresses in a mail header section.
The AutoWhitelist plugin was updated and can now deal with IPv6 addresses.
Installation unit tests were updated to prevent them from failing on an IPv6-only host.
This is excellent news and we congratulate the Apache SpamAssassin team on making this happen. If you are a SpamAssassin user, you can get release 3.4.0 now to be able to fight spam on email connections over IPv6!
Feb 12
Enjoying Watching Olympic Curling? TRY IT OUT This Sunday in Petersham, MA
Are you enjoying watching curling at the Sochi Olympics? Are you intrigued by the game and want to learn more? Would you like to try it out yourself?
The great news is that you CAN try it this Sunday, February 16, from 12-5pm, and then again on Thursday, February 20, from 6-9pm.
The great folks down at the Petersham Curling Club (PCC), about 45 minutes south of Keene, are holding two FREE open houses to help people learn about the game. As noted on their page about the curling open houses, the two upcoming dates are:
- Sun, Feb 16, 12-5 pm – At this Open House you’ll have a chance to actually try the sport of curling. You’ll learn how to deliver a stone, the role of sweeping and more. This will be a great opportunity to get on the ice and experience the sport yourself!
- Thurs, Feb 20, 6-9 pm - This will be a week-night version of the Feb 16th Open House where you will again get a chance to try out the sport of curling.
All you need to bring is a pair of clean, rubber-soled shoes and your enthusiasm! You’ll have the chance to try out the great game of curling that you are seeing on the Olympics.
It’s easy to get to the Petersham Curling Club – from Keene just head south on Route 32 (going down past the Keene airport) and stay on Route 32 all the way down through Richmond, NH, Royalston, MA, Athol and on into Petersham. The club is located right off of Route 32. More information can be found on the PCC directions page. In good weather it takes about 45 minutes to get from Keene down to the Petersham club.
The Petersham Curling Club is a great place to curl and is where several of us involved with starting up the Monadnock Curling Club all curl. We strongly encourage you to head down to Petersham, MA, and check out the Open Houses. And if the curling bug bites you as it has us, please do join the PCC and start playing the awesome sport of curling!
And then… please let us know you are interested in seeing curling come to Keene!
Feb 12
Enjoying Watching Olympic Curling? TRY IT OUT This Sunday in Petersham, MA
Are you enjoying watching curling at the Sochi Olympics? Are you intrigued by the game and want to learn more? Would you like to try it out yourself?
The great news is that you CAN try it this Sunday, February 16, from 12-5pm, and then again on Thursday, February 20, from 6-9pm.
The great folks down at the Petersham Curling Club (PCC), about 45 minutes south of Keene, are holding two FREE open houses to help people learn about the game. As noted on their page about the curling open houses, the two upcoming dates are:
- Sun, Feb 16, 12-5 pm – At this Open House you’ll have a chance to actually try the sport of curling. You’ll learn how to deliver a stone, the role of sweeping and more. This will be a great opportunity to get on the ice and experience the sport yourself!
- Thurs, Feb 20, 6-9 pm – This will be a week-night version of the Feb 16th Open House where you will again get a chance to try out the sport of curling.
All you need to bring is a pair of clean, rubber-soled shoes and your enthusiasm! You’ll have the chance to try out the great game of curling that you are seeing on the Olympics.
It’s easy to get to the Petersham Curling Club – from Keene just head south on Route 32 (going down past the Keene airport) and stay on Route 32 all the way down through Richmond, NH, Royalston, MA, Athol and on into Petersham. The club is located right off of Route 32. More information can be found on the PCC directions page. In good weather it takes about 45 minutes to get from Keene down to the Petersham club.
The Petersham Curling Club is a great place to curl and is where several of us involved with starting up the Monadnock Curling Club all curl. We strongly encourage you to head down to Petersham, MA, and check out the Open Houses. And if the curling bug bites you as it has us, please do join the PCC and start playing the awesome sport of curling!
And then… please let us know you are interested in seeing curling come to Keene!
Feb 11
TDYR #097 – After Playing In A Great Curling Game, And Also Watching Olympic Curling
After playing a great game of curling down in Petersham, MA, I talked about that game and also about how great it is to watch Olympic curling!
Feb 11
Watch LIVE Today: NANOG Sessions On IPv6 Performance, Addressing
Today’s meeting of the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) provides two opportunities to learn more about IPv6 by watching the NANOG live video stream at:
http://www.kikaua.com/clients/nanog/
First, from 2:30 – 3:15 US Eastern time, Lee Howard of Time Warner Cable will present on “IPv6 Performance Bonus“. The abstract is:
Data from multiple sources suggests that IPv6 offers better performance over IPv4. Presentation includes the data and methodologies, plus test results investigating the reasons for the performance difference.
Later in the day, from 4:30 – 5:00 US Eastern time, Athanasios Douitsis from the NTUA Network Operations Centre in Greece will present on “Building an IPv6 Address Management System“. From his abstract it sounds like it should be an interesting case study in how to implement a system for IP address management. (You can also see our IPv6 address planning page for resources related to this topic.)
The full NANOG 60 agenda lists the other sessions that will be happening today and tomorrow, as well as presentation files for sessions that have already occurred.
If you are at NANOG 60 in Atlanta this week, please do remember that our Chris Grundemann is there at NANOG. Please do find him and say hello!
Feb 10
TDYR #096 – Google Passes Another IPv6 Milestone
Today the Internet passed another milestone in the deployment of IPv6 when Google reported seeing over 3% IPv6 traffic only less than 5 months from seeing 2% IPv6 traffic. While the numbers are still small, the growth is hot and trending in the right direction! More info: http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2014/02/googles-ipv6-stats-pass-3-less-than-5-months-after-passing-2/
http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
Feb 10
Google’s IPv6 Stats Pass 3% Less Than 5 Months After Passing 2%!
Wow! The pace of IPv6 deployment is rapidly accelerating! This morning Google’s IPv6 measurements crossed the 3% milestone just under five months from when the 2% milestone was crossed. Prior to that it had taken 11 months to go from 1% to 2%. The growth path is certainly heading in the right direction:
To be clear, what Google is measuring here is the percentage of users that access Google services over IPv6. Given the range of IPv6-connected services that Google offers, including YouTube, Google+, and Gmail, these measurements do provide a good view into the amount of IPv6 deployed in access networks around the world.
What is driving this growth? In a post on our Internet Technology Matters blog, my colleague Phil Roberts writes:
More operators in more countries are deploying IPv6 and increasing the size of their subscriber base that use the technology. You can see the list of networks that have measurable IPv6 deployments in the World IPv6 Launch. You can also look at the Google country graph of Europe to see that there are substantial deployments in Switzerland, Belgium, Romania, Germany, and France, for example. The IPv6 traffic from Belgium alone has almost doubled in the last month.
As Phil notes, we recently predicted IPv6 will get to 10% deployment this year and while that may be an aggressive prediction it is very clear that IPv6 is no longer something that will be mythically deployed “some day“. IPv6 deployment IS happening… and more rapidly than ever!
If you haven’t been thinking about making your content available over IPv6 and/or making your network work over IPv6, now is definitely the time to do so! Please check out our IPv6 resources and please do let us know how we can help you make the move!
Feb 10
FIR #742 – 2/10/14 – For Immediate Release
Quick News: Klout content sharing recommendations, Wikimedians in residence, podcasting's future, real-time access to Bitcoin cost of goods; Ragan promo; News That Fits: what does your brand sound like?, Michael Netzley's Asia report, nine things to know about using social media at work, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, listener comments, five social media tips from The Wall Street Journal, this week on the FIR Podcast Network, Dan York's report, companies apologize a lot on Twitter; music from White Denim; and more.
Feb 09
TDYR #095 – Are You Making It Easy For The Media To Tell Your Story?
TDYR #095 - Are You Making It Easy For The Media To Tell Your Story? by Dan York
