My domains will be down for a couple of days. I'm not sure exactly when, but I will not have any websites, nor e-mail, until, well, until it's all back up.
Here's the poop: A few months ago my web host decided to implement a new and exciting feature that would make me ultimately happy. It did not involve batteries, nor breathless moments and moist warmth. It involved an implementation of some sort of super-duper anti-spam software.
The process of rolling this thing out was painful for me, for another customer of theirs with whom I correrspond and, I suspect, for pretty much everyone.
Eventually it settled down, except ... the damn thing continues to sporadically reject e-mail from people I've white listed. They are not sending anything even remotely resembling spam _and_ I put them on the white list! I complain, the techs claim they twiddled something, everything's fine, and then once again some mail gets bounced as spammy. Sometimes the sender gets the bounce message, but I still get the mail! And ... get this ... the sender is on the same domain! He's using the same mail set up that I am!!!
So I finally threatened them and they are now moving my domain and data to a new server that has not been configured with this anti-spam software. It will take a couple of hours for them to move the stuff, but it will take a few days for the new IP address to propagate to all the name servers, so if you come here, find I'm not here, then that's why.
Please pardon our dust.
Just as long as you don't shoot anyone for cutting off your internet access...