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Proposal for .mail domains

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  • Subject: Proposal for .mail domains
  • From: "Steve Watne" <Steve.Watne@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:02:45 -0500

Sirs -

The idea of registering .mail domains is a sound one.  As the administrator of a corporate email system, I know the flood of spam will continue to weaken the faith users have in email communications.  It's already happening to a some degree at our organization, but if projections are correct and measures are not taken now, email as we know it will no longer be the communication vehicle of choice by a large majority of end users. 
 
At Toro, we use black hole lists, use a spam filtering system, aggressively administer black and white lists, block many attachment types, and manually sift through thousands of blocked emails looking for false positives. Our white list alone contains over five thousand entries and the black list a thousand.  Even with the aggressive approach we've taken, enough spam makes it through to inconvenience users and the delay in receiving incorrectly tagged false positives can impact business transactions.   Anything we can add to reduce the administrative burden and reducing the flood of unwanted junk would be welcome.  Your proposal would definitely help.

Steve Watne,  CISSP, CNE
Manager, Enterprise Security & Email Services
The Toro Company
952-887-8122





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