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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hopefully this arrives to the full mail list. We have been experiencing a surge in mail list traffic that is primarily spam, but in effect is bogging down posts. The following post has a few more details:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://news.open-bio.org/2017/11/12/mailing-list-outage-and-public-board-meeting-update/">https://news.open-bio.org/2017/11/12/mailing-list-outage-and-public-board-meeting-update/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We have adjusted the spam filters and some posts seems to be coming through, but there is a possibility that this may take a little more time to resolve.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>chris<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>