Re: [Asrg] 0. General - AT&T Whitelists

At 9:56 AM -0400 10/22/03, Daniel Feenberg wrote:

> The letter is quite confused, but read
> closely, and applying some common
> sense, it looks like they are building a list of smtp servers in
> ATT
> address space, or address space served by AT&T as the ISP, and
> that only
> those servers will be allowed to SEND smtp mail via port 25. So
> unless
> ATTBI is your ISP, you are unaffected, except to the extent that
> this
> reduces spam from ATTBI
> sources.

First of all, it's corporate AT&T, not ATTBI (which is now Comcast anyway).  But no, I don't think so.  Some people have raised that point on Nanog, but there's no confirmation.  And other's are claiming that they already can't send mail to AT&T proper.  Also, note this line:

> What AT&T is asking is for you to help AT&T to
> restrict incoming mail
> to just our known and trusted sources (e.g., business partners,
> clients
> and customers).

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Kee Hinckley
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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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