Re: A request to all mail admins

From: Bruno Wolff III (bruno_at_cerberus.csd.uwm.edu)
Date: 08/28/03 

Date: 28 Aug 2003 17:24:43 GMT

In article <86fzjmw30s.fsf@potato.vegetable.org.uk>, Tim Haynes wrote:
>
> b) bouncing virus mails is just as stupid as replying to any other kind of
> UBE - it's automation of generating replies (new mails with different
> envelopes), and is similarly moronic.

Since these messages are being detected by a virus scanner, the scanner should
know whether or not the virus forges the envelope sender or not and send
a bounce message or not accordingly. Some virus scanners actually do this.

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