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Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail
From: Kee Hinckley <nazgul () somewhere com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:33:34 -0400
At 2:43 PM -0400 10/22/03, Steve Bellovin wrote:
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.
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.
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.
Current thread:
- Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Jeff Wasilko (Oct 21)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Marshall Eubanks (Oct 21)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Tony Rall (Oct 21)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Mike Tancsa (Oct 21)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Marshall Eubanks (Oct 21)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Brian Bruns (Oct 21)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Marshall Eubanks (Oct 21)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Crist Clark (Oct 21)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Jamie Reid (Oct 21)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Steve Bellovin (Oct 22)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Kee Hinckley (Oct 22)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Steven M. Bellovin (Oct 22)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Sean Donelan (Oct 22)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS (Oct 22)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Oct 22)
- Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail Todd Vierling (Oct 23)