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 02:39:46 GMT

    Alan Connor wrote:
    > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 00:41:19 GMT, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@verizon.net> wrote:
    >
    >>
    >>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.
    >>
    >
    >
    >
    > 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!

    Well, yes, but *extremely* few do anything other than forge the "From:"
    line.

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