Re: Latest Worm - Why such a flood?

From: Barry Margolin (barry.margolin_at_level3.com)
Date: 09/29/03

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    Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:11:42 GMT

    In article <bl1e7j$ege$1@string.physics.ubc.ca>,
    Bill Unruh <unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca> wrote:
    >Gary Schmidt <Gary.Schmidt@oz.quest.com> writes:
    >
    >]Casper H.S. *** wrote:
    >]> Gary Schmidt <Gary.Schmidt@oz.quest.com> writes:
    >]>
    >]>
    >]>>Add Oz to the list of countries where Privacy Laws _may_ require all
    >]>>email to be delivered to the recipient. We have a recently passed
    ...
    >And who exactly is going to bring the action? The virus writer? The
    >faked sender? The faked recipient? The police?

    The sender and/or recipient of a legitimate email that is mistakenly
    blocked by the ISP. False positives are probably the biggest worry of
    third-party spam/virus filtering. 

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Barry Margolin, barry.margolin@level3.com
Level(3), Woburn, MA
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