[59425] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: National Do Not Call Registry has opened
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Callahan, Richard M, SOLGV)
Fri Jun 27 20:01:38 2003
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 19:00:52 -0500
From: "Callahan, Richard M, SOLGV" <rmcallahan@att.com>
To: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>,
"LeBlanc, Robert" <Robert.LeBlanc@savvis.net>
Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Ladies and Gentlemen,
This has been an extremely difficult day for me personally and =
professionally due to many issues we had. Without going into the painful =
details, let me assure the community my original post was for exactly =
for the reason I posted - and we do indeed know how to run a standards =
compliant mail system. A side effect to the problems encountered was an =
inability to send a valid IP address among other things to operate the =
mail system and instead sending a static LB IP address, which =
effectively made all our mail look, as Mr.Sprunk so eloquently phrased, =
suspicious looking.
We are over the hump - lost a tremendous amount of credibility and the =
opportunity to show "the government at work". The FTC has put their all =
into this project and the associated laws which I would hope all of you =
anti-spam police would appreciate. My apologies to the community for =
all the trash email this fiasco has produced, but more so to my customer =
for not delivering the quality they deserve.
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Sprunk [mailto:stephen@sprunk.org]
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 6:10 PM
To: LeBlanc, Robert
Cc: Callahan, Richard M, SOLGV; North American Noise and Off-topic
Gripes
Subject: Re: National Do Not Call Registry has opened
Thus spake "LeBlanc, Robert" <Robert.LeBlanc@savvis.net>
> "It's very difficult to make the technology work... Spam blockers are
> automated and the software rules are arbitrary," he said.
It's a shame the press are putting the blame for this on anti-spam =
software,
as it's clear that the DoNotCall.gov people have brought the problem on
themselves by not running a standards-compliant mail system.
What's worse is they knew this was coming and didn't do anything to =
prevent
it! It appears Mr. Callahan's message to nanog wasn't to look for =
advice on
how not to trigger spam filters -- it was to beg us to add his systems =
to
our whitelists so his suspicious-looking mail would go through.
Looks like a case of "Good enough for government work" in action.
S
Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein
CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the
K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking
