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From: gadgeteer at elegantinnovations.org (gadgeteer@...gantinnovations.org) Subject: Re: Why are postmasters distributing the MyDoom virus? On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 02:15:43PM -0500, Richard M. Smith (rms@...puterbytesman.com) wrote: > Perhaps these postmasters need to review > their bounce message policies and remove all attached files from messages > being bounced. Since it is well known that virii forge From headers the better policy adjustment would be to NOT bounce virii messages at all. The Anti-Virus companies are certainly well aware of it as it is a characteristic described in their alerts. Many of these bounces triggered by virii are nothing less then a spam opprotunity for the A-V software company. There is no "opt-out" from these spam messages. This would seem to be a clear violation of CAN-SPAM. Some sites have implemented various schemes to reject virii at the smtp level. See nanog mail archives for recent threads dealing with this and related topics. -- Chief Gadgeteer Elegant Innovations
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