Re: A request to all mail admins
From: Alan Connor (xxxxxx_at_xxxx.xxx)
Date: 08/29/03
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 01:04:00 GMT
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 00:41:19 GMT, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@verizon.net> wrote:
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> Jem Berkes wrote:
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>> 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.
>
Formail selects the envelope header by default. And if you don't think they
can forge those I have some pacific ocean beach front property in Nevada,
cheap!
Alan C
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