[Mimedefang] Viruses: Bounce or Discard?

Keith Dowell keith at rogersmfg.com
Mon Sep 29 15:58:00 EDT 2003


I don't think it's a software issue at all. It's just plain stupidity of
uneducated users that barely know how to turn their computer on, and think
virus protection comes from their family physician.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Les Mikesell" <les at futuresource.com>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Viruses: Bounce or Discard?


> 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...
>
> ---
>    Les Mikesell
>     les at futuresource.com
>
>
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