[Mimedefang] OS wars... [was Viruses: Bounce or Discard?]

[Stephen Smoogen]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 14:20, Peter P. Benac wrote:
> David,
> 
>     Who are you going to collect this $0.10 from?  The spoofer or the
> spoofee!!!  Am I to blame if someone send a virus and uses my e-mail address
> in the From: Field.  Who is to pay for the software that will be required to
> calculate the per virus charges and then bill my customers?
> 

Well an ISP has a lot more controll over this than most people. I can
tell exactly which machines IPs are sending out this crap and those are
the ones that get the bill.

Consider it the equivalent of a user finding out his insurance bill has
gone up because he has one too many accidents/speeding tickets.

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