Is the BigFix-Announcements list stuck?

There has been new content released 10/16 and 10/18, but no the bigfix-announcements list hasn’t had any posts since 10/15. Is the moderator queue stuck or something?
http://bigmail.bigfix.com/pipermail/bigfix-announcements/2015-October/date.html

As of this writing, the most recent post is:

Fixlet Site - ‘Patches for Windows (English)’
Current Version: 2334 Published: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 17:09:14 GMT

I wouldn’t normally comment on so small a coverage gap, but I was checking email all weekend for Flash Player 19.0.0.226 updates. Only this morning, after checking the inventory directly, did I find out they’re already here. (Yay!)

Nope, I’ve been emails all week including two that were just sent tonight.

Curious. The archive still shows the most recent as of 10/15.

Anyone else?

Clear your cache and/or try another browser. Last post was Oct 21st for me:

http://bigmail.bigfix.com/pipermail/besadmin-announcements/2015-October/date.html

“Starting: Thu Oct 1 03:23:47 PDT 2015
Ending: Wed Oct 21 10:10:03 PDT 2015
Messages: 40”

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Turns out the list is hosted at IBM’s SoftLayer business, which is known to be excessively spammy. See Krebs’ article, “IBM Runs World’s Worst Spam-Hosting ISP?

SoftLayer’s reputation here isn’t theoretical. This campus blocks over 300,000+ spam messages daily from SoftLayer. A particular spammer gets a new VPS and network range each day, then spams for a while. As I type this we’ve blocked over 56,000 today from a new /16. Due to this real-world impact, our administrators recently blocked all of SoftLayer.

Thus, we can no longer receive postings from the bigmail.bigfix.com mailing lists. :rage:

(They put in an exception for me. But IBM has a self-created problem here.)