[60936] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pascal Gloor)
Wed Aug 20 10:35:41 2003
From: "Pascal Gloor" <pascal.gloor@spale.com>
To: "Joe Maimon" <jmaimon@ttec.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 16:32:04 +0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Considering the amount of email traffic generated by responding to
> forged virus laden email from culprits like sobig should email virus
> scanning systems be configured to send notifications back to sender or
not?
Considering that the "From" is almost always not the right one, I think
sending notifications back will only help to increase the mail traffic and
wont help anyone.
Pascal
