Telco giant AT&T on Wednesday rushed to withdraw two notices sent to business partners and customers asking for the IP addresses of all outbound SMTP servers because of a "human error" gaffe.

With a significant increase in incoming spam over the past few days, AT&T sent out the notices demanding the IP addresses, presumably to create a white list of gateways from which e-mail will be accepted. But a company spokesman now says customers should ignore the requests.

"Those e-mails went out in error. They never should have been sent. We have apologized and we're requesting that customers disregard them," AT&T spokesman Dave Johnson told internetnews.com. Read Article >> Posted by: DTB at 9:03 PM  |  Permalink