Re: A request to all mail admins
From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_verizon.net)
Date: 08/29/03
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 00:41:19 GMT
Jem Berkes wrote:
> A request to mail system admins: if you have virus scanners or some sort of
> worm/attachment blocking mechanism, please configure it to NOT send notices
> back to the sender that they sent a virus.
>
> These modern windows worms all forge the sender anyway. There are people
> like me who, unfortunately, have their addresses on too many windows
> users' address books and my inbox is flooded with "you sent a virus"
> notices. The notices just add to network congestion, and these are an
> avoidable bounce.
Some of them do a nice job of decrypting the header to find the *REAL*
IP address sending the spew. "sanitizer" does a nice job, although I'd
be happy to find one that takes less hand-tuning.
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