On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, jef moskot wrote: > On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Robert Schmidt wrote: > > > It is bad practice to drop messages in the round file and not tell > > anyone about it. > > Not if the message was not sent out by a human, but by an automatic system > designed to cause problems (which get exacerbated by rejections that > cause nothing but added traffic and confusion).
When you develop a system that can determine whether a message was sent by a human or by an automatic system, that has zero theoretical chance of a false positive, then I'll consider your suggestion. Until then, please stop giving bad advice to people. There are three cases to consider: 1 - virus from infected machine 2 - virus relayed through another server 3 - false positive Everyone agrees we don't want to generate a notification for case 1. Everyone agrees we *do* want to generate a notification for case 3. The *only* way to pull this off, is to *reject* viruses. Yes, this allows for a few false notifications (case 2) but those are fairly rare. Damian Menscher [doesn't understand why this is a difficult concept] -- -=#| Physics Grad Student & SysAdmin @ U Illinois Urbana-Champaign |#=- -=#| 488 LLP, 1110 W. Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 Ofc:(217)333-0038 |#=- -=#| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Fax:(217)333-9819 |#=- -=#| The above opinions are not necessarily those of my employers: |#=- -=#| UIUC CITES Security Group || Beckman Imaging Technology Group |#=- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
