On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:03:37AM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote: > Also, I don't have any hard data to support this, but it's obvious to me > that the volume of mail generated by virus scanners in response to Sobig.f > eclipses the volume of TMDA challenges by at least a factor of 10. So far, > I haven't received *one* TMDA challenge that was due to Sobig, but I've > received *hundreds* of messages from virus scanners all over the net.
Yes, and every single administrator that's configured their virus scanner to bounce to envelope deserves a swift kick upside the head. > So, I guess we should add virus scanners to the list of verboten software. No, but they should be configured to *not* bounce to envelope sender. As for email challenges, I've actually received a lot of them. Every single one of them so far has been for messages I have not sent (spam and viruses with my forged email address). I no longer read them, but dump them just like I dump the 'virus in your email' messages. So, if I ever send mail to a legitimate person who has CR, he's never going to get my message, because I refuse to waste my time reading CR requests any more. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL
