Re: [Ipsec] !!! PLEASE STOP SPAMMING VIRUSES !!!

["Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 01:17:47PM -0700, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
> > We are filtering something like 400-500 Spam and virus messages A DAY
> > being sent to the ipsec mailing list.  It's only the ones which match
> > valid recipients of the ipsec mailing list (and e-mail address on the
> > white list) that are getting through.
> 
> Are bounce messages sent when a virus is discovered? If so you may well
> be spamming the person. I get several hundred virus bounce messages 
> every day, as if the virus scanners did not know that the viruses 
> almost all forge email addresses these days.

No, I MANUALLY review the subject lines of all of said mail messages
(usually every day, but sometimes travel forces me to skip a day or
so), and allow any false positives to be sent on to their destination.
(I then put the sender address of said false positive on the
whitelist.)  All spam/virus mail is then silently dropped.

> There is more than enough blame to go round for the virus problem.
> Please do not try to lay everything at the door of your competitors.

I read my mail on Linux, and am quite positive that I haven't done
anything to contribute to the problem.  In fact, as a member of the
security community, I remember agitating against the sort of rampant
featuritis that make e-mail virii possible, a full decade or more ago.
But of course, no one in the American Northwest bothered to listen to
those of us who saw this problem coming a long, long, LONG time ago.

But this has very little to do with IPSEC, so please take any replies
to this off-list, please.

						- Ted

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