Re: Latest Worm - Why such a flood?

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 09/26/03 

Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:14:15 +0000 (UTC)

]>Our university mailhub is deleting the attachment, and changing the subject
]>to "Virus found in the message". This will make it possible for the final
]>recipient to filter out at least the messages which have been disinfected at
]>the destination. It doen't work, of course, if every relay hub has a
]>different way of tagging these messages.
]>The problem is that the 100KB virus must be deleted early in its journey, or
]>the whole internet could choke on the volume. What we need is a way for the
]>relay hubs to tag the cleaned messages so they can still be spam filtered at
]>the destination. Maybe add "penis penis" to the subject.
]>A long-term solution is that we work out some standard way that all mail
]>relays can label a messages that they have disinfected. Maybe an extra
]>header.
]>- Dave

]I for one would rather you just deleted the message rather than forwarding it
]on. What good does it do to let someone know that they were the target of
]of this type of virus ? With a virus which just attaches itself to a legitimate
]mail someone sent out it makes sense but not this type of virus.

Agreed most heartily. I think that sites which pass on the "cleaned"
email are almost as guilty as the virus writer. It is complete
irresponsibility.

If the post office gets an anthrax filled letter, do they feel that it
is their duty to clean the envelope and then send the cleaned envelope
on to the recipient? No. You destroy the envelope and its contents.

]There may be legal reasons why ALL mail may have to be delivered in some
]countries - I believe this maybe the case in Germany - but this isn't the case
]in most countries.

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