[59322] in North American Network Operators' Group
Major E-mail Delivery for FTC DNCR Launch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Callahan, Richard M, SOLGV)
Wed Jun 25 14:08:46 2003
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:08:08 -0500
From: "Callahan, Richard M, SOLGV" <rmcallahan@att.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Cc: "Windelberg, Marjorie L, SOLGV" <windelberg@att.com>,
"Weiss, Christine G, SOLGV" <cgweiss@att.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Good Afternoon=20
and forgive the new guy if I break any rules or conventions.
I work for AT&T Government Solutions and we are about to launch the Do =
Not Call Registry for the Federal Trade Commission. At a high level =
this allows consumers to register their phone numbers to keep most =
telemarketers from calling their homes. Penalties for calling a =
consumer on the list can be $11K per call and enforcement begins in =
October.
We are launching consumer registrations on Friday. My concern:
- every registration using the web generates an email which must be =
opened to complete the registration process
We are looking at the potential of MILLIONS OF EMAILS PER DAY beginning =
Friday. These will be from the same address and have the same subject =
line.
I am worried about denial of service or blocking by spam filters if =
providers are not aware this is coming.
I am hoping this group is a good medium to get the word out to inform =
the community of this impending event.
At this time I am unable to provide the link or email address, but will =
do so on Thursday evening if it is of value.
Any thoughts?
Richard M. Callahan
Client Business Manager
AT&T Government Solutions
Office: (703)506-5780
Mobile: (703)608-0665
Fax: (703)245-3749
