[60948] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Wed Aug 20 11:44:26 2003
From: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>
To: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:40:53 -0400
In-Reply-To: <3F4384D8.7060400@ttec.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:25, Joe Maimon wrote:
> 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?
Absolutely not. My spam filters are handling the original spam fine but I am
getting tons of responses to email I didn't send in the first place. It's
legitimate email from legitimate sources so the filters don't catch it but it
is garbage nonetheless.
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