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Email and dialup services to be discontinued as of 12/31/08

We regret to announce that Prairienet will be discontinuing the following services as of December 31, 2008:
  • all email
  • mailing lists (listservs)
  • modem dialup service (dialup Internet access)
Organizational Web hosting (aka Information Provider) accounts will continue to be available, although they will no longer offer email.

Final Score: Spam 1, Prairienet 0

As you know, we have been battling the relentless global increase in spam volume for some time now. Spam now accounts for 99% of all email and the two Proofpoint spam filter servers that were put into service in 2006 are routinely running at 10-15 times their rated loads, resulting in intermittent crashes and delivery outages. Other options did not pan out and we could not afford the necessary Proofpoint server upgrades, leaving us with no alternative but to discontinue email services altogether.

More Information

If you have not received the email notice that went out to all members, you can read it here. We have also prepared a FAQ which we hope will answer the most common questions.