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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail
At 2:43 PM -0400 10/22/03, Steve Bellovin wrote: That reminds me of the time the new head of security at Apollo announced that they were going to be saving money by turning off the power and locking the buildings on weekends. That afternoon on the way out there were fliers that sounded almost exactly like that paragraph. It was just a misunderstanding.Customers who received e-mail bulletins from AT&T Monday and Tuesday requesting specific information are advised to disregard those messages. They were inadvertently sent out in error and we apologize for any confusion or inconvenience they may have caused. However, what AT&T was trying to do, however clumsily, isn't that different from what companies like AOL and MSN do, where certain IP addresses get red carpet treatment through the mail servers, while others are more closely examined. It doesn't surprise me that non-ISP companies are starting to look at the same kind of things. -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Generation Spam Defense http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.
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