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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications?
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:25:28 EDT, Joe Maimon <[email protected]> said: > Considering the amount of email traffic generated by responding to > forged virus laden email from culprits like sobig should email virus > scanning systems be configured to send notifications back to sender or not? It isn't like the A/V vendors can't put a single bit in the description that says "uses real address" or "uses forged address" and only send a notification when the "real" bit is set. However, a lot of them seem to be more interested in pumping out PR and FUD. Worst part is if one of them had been smart, they'd have invented such a bit, patented it, and then shipped "New! Improved! Now with less confusing messages", and used the patent to make sure nobody else did. Now *that* would be a selling point for their product, but noooo... ;) They've missed their chance. Feel free to cite this e-mail as prior art if somebody tries it now... ;) Attachment:
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