Timothy Spaeth Unedited

Wow. Thursday, February 22nd 2024 8:13 a.m. CST. Well-good morning, If you have AT&T, you probably woke up to find that you and all of your family members had lost service. Maybe your phone said SOS, or SOS Only. Maybe calls just never rung. Maybe it's just too early to deal with this. I don't know, but many unconfirmed sources say that this is due to solar flares. My only question is: what's next? Is cell service the only things solar flares can affect? What about WiFi? I guess the vague AT&T notification will have to do until we hear more information. "Some functionality may not be available at the moment." Update as of 9:33 a.m. CST According to @Superdave14 on X (formerly Twitter), "AT&T provided no official reason for the outage, the issue appears to be related to how cellular services hand off calls from one network to the next, a process known as peering, according to an industry source who spoke on the condition of anonymity." Copyrig...

If you have been using your own domain for your email, you are going to want to read this. Recent changes have been put into effect this month (February, 2024) that affect you if you are using your own domain for your email. Do you send out email blasts? Did your open rate recently plummet? The answer is only five letters: DMARC. Beginning 2024, you must enable DMARC. To Enable DMARC: Add a TXT record to your DNS with a host of: _dmarc.yourdomain.com and a value of: v=DMARC1; p=none Pick your desired TTL and save the record.  You can use this website to check if DMARC has been enabled for your sending domain. It can take anywhere from 24-48 hours for the TXT record creation to go into effect. Copyright © 2024 Timothy Spaeth