[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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