Re: mail to/from att.com

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>]

In message <E1ACJQa-0008ub-OB@roam.psg.com>, Randy Bush writes:
>as att.com no longer accepts email from the internet, att.com
>mailing list subscribers will not receive email from the lists
>on psg.com/ops.ietf.org/...  i propose to
>
>  o bounce mail to att.com with a message that they are no longer
>    on the internet
>
>  o refuse mail from att.com as they are no longer able to accept
>    bounces, ...
>
>do folk have issues with this?
>

It should be a temporary problem at AT&T -- the issue was a spam load 
so massive as to overload our email gateways.  They responded stupidly, 
but there was a real emergency.  I'm still on a call discussing it.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb