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When I was a kid in deep suburban New Jersey, there were summer nights where the front yard shimmered and glowed and shifted with thousands of moats of light created by fireflies! It was pure magic!

I haven’t seen such a spectacle since the 1980s. Where have they gone? I’ve read reports that firefly populations are way down.

My question to you: have you seen fireflies in the past few years? Where?

Ok, I think I finally fixed it.

Since 2017, I’ve been having outgoing email spam problems. At one point, I’m sorry to say, malicious actors were sending 50,000 emails per day from @lee.org. I’ve been wrestling with the tools that stop stuff like that from happening. How did I finally fix it? Until last month, my email was hosted at Dreamhost.com and it forwarded to my free Gmail account. Now, it goes straight to a ($6/month) Google Workspace account.

I’ve only moved email over, not all the other google services but so far the move is successful.

Pluses:

• I can send email and expect people to get it!
• My spam folder is now seeing 10 spams/day instead of 100. I guess the paid account is smarter. Not having to wade through that crap monthly for the inevitable non-spam is well worth $6/month!

Minuses:

• I’m now 1/2 in Gmail and 1/2 in Google Workspace and fixing that will take some more effort
• Right now I’m keeping my contacts in Gmail (for my phone and Google Voice) and a not-often-updated copy in Google Workspace (for my email) :-(
• Switching Calendar will be a bother since I’ve got like 20 shared calendars and fiddly defaults to set up.
• Switching to Google Workspace Google Voice will be $10/month which I’m hesitant to do since it’s free right now
• Migrating my 30k emails took 3 days and a learning curve but it’s done!
• I’ll have to migrate my beloved Boomerang for Gmail manually
• Setting up DKIM for my email wasn’t hard per se but took some thinking and clicking

Some tools to test the spamminess of your domain:

• Mail-Tester.com
• MXToolbox.com
• toolbox.googleapps.com
• DMARC Quarantine vs. DMARC Reject: Which Should You Implement?
• Valimail.com DMARC tools
• Dmarcian.com DMARC tools

Burning Man is not happening this year. You can watch it not happen, live, right now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jUOPgEtaSE Rewind the livestream to about sunrise this morning to see a dance party. I’m most enamored of the tricycle with the 40′ tall illuminated tower on it!