10 Sep
2002
10 Sep
'02
8:09 a.m.
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Ewen McNeill wrote:
To bring it vaguely back on topic: mail scanners at ISPs (eg, the Xtra ones) would do need to either forward on the bones, or bounce the whole message back to the "sender" -- silently dropping things is bad, as it just hides the problem (and can hide more stuff). For messages which appear to be viruses that send their own mail (ie, spreading as worms), I'd personally go for just bouncing the whole message back.
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