[Mimedefang] Viruses: Bounce or Discard?

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 13:01, David F. Skoll wrote:

> > The ISP dutifully bounces the malware at the forged sender,
> 
> I used to advocate bouncing viruses, but now I've crossed over to
> the "discard" viewpoint.
> 

Is there a handy way to tell if you are connected directly to
the originating machine.  This should be the case if no one
else has inserted a 'Received:' header.  If no other relay is
involved, an smtp reject is clearly the right thing to do.

> I believe that ISP's should write into
> their terms of service that users will be liable for 10 cents for each
> and every virus transmission from their machine.

As a software vendor yourself, do you really think that end users
should be responsible for things the software might do without
their knowledge?  All they did was pay for it...

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   Les Mikesell
    les at futuresource.com