"Telco giant AT&T (Quote, Chart) on Wednesday rushed to withdraw two notices sent to business partners and customers asking for the IP addresses of all outbound SMTP (define) 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.
"It was an honest human error. Sometimes, folks makes mistakes," Johnson said.
The first notice sent by AT&T included a warning that e-mail access would be cut off if the IP addresses of the SMTP (define) gateways were not provided. "
They certainly upset some people with those :)
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