Old Main building at Gustavus Adolphus College during sunrise.

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  • Faster Email

    The performance of our email server has been anything but great the past few weeks. To help speed things up we ordered some nice new…


  • AOL rejecting our email

    Last week it appears that AOL put us on their blacklist. That means that any email sent from Gustavus via our default mail server was…


  • Norelius Back Online

    Sunday evening something happened in Norelius that pretty much brought down the entire network. We are not sure exactly what it was. It was still…


  • Email Performance

    Most of you at GAC have probably noticed that this week email has gotten particularly slow. There appears to be a few reasons for this.…


  • SPF

    In an effort to help protect our self from joe jobs, spam, viruses, etc. we have begun publishing SPF TXT records in our DNS for…


  • Lots of infections

    It seems like almost every Windows computer on campus is infected these days. Ok, well maybe not every one, but some times it sure feels…


  • ddos

    It appears as though some machine(s) on campus is trying to take out an IRCd server. There are literally thousands of spoofed TCP SYN packets…


  • Email downtime

    Due to an unusual set of circumstances, we had to turn off email for about an hour today. A combination of a new email virus/worm,…


  • No more MyDoom messages

    Since there is such a high volume of the MyDoom infected email attachments flying around these days and some unlucky people have been getting hundreds…


  • iChat AV 2.1

    Finally! The new version of iChat AV finally supports video conferences with PC users that download the latest version of AOL’s IM client. So much…