[Mimedefang] White paper on futility of replying to viruses?
Ben Kamen
bkamen at benjammin.net
Fri Jul 16 14:27:55 EDT 2004
sounds like a bad idea... imagine all the admins you would be emailing who would
actually care or be allowed to do anything else due to politics.. ugh.
Email is just a mess.
-Ben
Kenneth Porter wrote:
> I seem to get a lot of automated replies from virus scanners responding
> to forged viruses with my address as the sender (typically lifted from a
> newsgroup posting). It would be nice if I could fire off a link to that
> postmaster pointing to an article explaining why auto-replies to a virus
> are a Bad Idea. Does anyone know of any good articles explaining this?
> (And is it an equally Bad Idea to auto-reply to such an auto-reply? ;) )
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