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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 Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:25, Joe Maimon wrote: > 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? Absolutely not. My spam filters are handling the original spam fine but I am getting tons of responses to email I didn't send in the first place. It's legitimate email from legitimate sources so the filters don't catch it but it is garbage nonetheless. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[email protected]{druid|vex}.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner.
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