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<TITLE>RE: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail</TITLE>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>When individual employees of a large corporation speak to the general public, they need to put in a disclaimer. When a large corporation speaks to the general public, the disclaimer is not necessary. Bill was quite right to put a disclaimer after his personal remarks.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>For the official statement, look in the thread for the Press Release which was also inserted by Bill Stewart presumably after getting clearance from AT&T's Public Relations people. It stated</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2> AT&T STATEMENT - CURRENT SPAM ATTACK - 10/22/03</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>AT&T and a number of other large companies have seen a marked</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>increase in the amount of incoming SPAM in recent days. A team of</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>experts that includes members from AT&T Labs, Network Services,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>and Corporate Security has implemented a number of procedures to</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>remediate this situation and minimize its impact on those trying</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>to send e-mail to "att.com" addresses.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>As of this morning - Wednesday, October 22nd - the level of incoming</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>e-mail messages is returning to normal and the situation appears</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>to be well in hand. Although all AT&T e-mail servers are fully</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>operational at this time, some incoming messages are experiencing</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>intermittent delays as SPAM filtering continues at all network</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>gateways.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Customers who received e-mail bulletins from AT&T Monday and Tuesday</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>requesting specific information are advised to disregard those</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>messages. They were inadvertently sent out in error and we apologize</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>for any confusion or inconvenience they may have caused.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Network reliability is one of our top priorities at AT&T, so for</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>obvious reasons we will not be providing more detailed information</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>regarding the specific security procedures implemented to curb this</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>SPAM attack. We have no intention of helping those who generate</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>this type of computer and Internet mischief.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Regards,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>________________________________ </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Terry Bowden</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>AT&T Service Delivery Manager</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>NZ</FONT>
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