[59326] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Major E-mail Delivery for FTC DNCR Launch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Jun 25 16:26:02 2003
To: "Callahan, Richard M, SOLGV" <rmcallahan@att.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org,
"Windelberg, Marjorie L, SOLGV" <windelberg@att.com>,
"Weiss, Christine G, SOLGV" <cgweiss@att.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:25:34 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In message <729306F70E13DB43AA2D7AA0FAD4715D05441718@OCCLUST03EVS1.ugd.att.com>
, "Callahan, Richard M, SOLGV" writes:
>
>Good Afternoon
> 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 Cal
>l Registry for the Federal Trade Commission. At a high level this allows cons
>umers 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 ca
>ll 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 comm
>unity 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.
>
You should definitely contact the postmasters for some of the major
consumer ISPs -- they often have their own filtering policies and
procedures. AOL's policies have been discussed on this list in the
past. Also watch out for Earthlink's challenge/response scheme.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)
