[Mimedefang] Need help with virus notifications

[WBrown at e1b.org]

mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com wrote on 12/13/2004 09:26:25 
AM:

> Take the time to identify whether the message is a mass-mailer that
> falsifies the sender's address.  This is simple to do, and it avoids
> attacking an innocent (remember, the bounce might include the infected
> attachment ... and the bounce is going to the one person in the world 
who
> DID NOT send the virus in the first place).

Given that nearly all of the current viruses use their own internal SMTP 
engines to send directly, a 550 will just kill the virus.  It will only 
harrass an innocent third party if the infected email is relayed through a 
normal mail server. 

Under that situation, I do not feel guilty about that person because I am 
not generating the mail, all I am doing is refusing to accept delivery of 
it.