Re: A request to all mail admins

From: Alan Connor (xxxxxx_at_xxxx.xxx)
Date: 08/29/03 

Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 03:53:10 GMT

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 02:39:46 GMT, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>
> Alan Connor wrote:
>> 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.
>>>
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>> 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.
>

If that was the case, then wouldn't it be easy to track them down?

Alan C 

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