Spam fighting tools - TMDA

[Zbigniew Koziol]

From: "Henry Spencer" <henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org>


> On 20 Apr 2004, Alan Cohen wrote:
> > I tell the innocent recipient that I detected a virus in his inbox.
> > I suppose I'm also telling the oft-times innocent sender what he just
> > did.
>
> No, you're telling a completely uninvolved third party -- whose name was
> *forged* as the sender -- something he has absolutely no interest in
> hearing.  Thus contributing to the clutter.

Exactly. Still there are so many admins around who do not know that... And
even worser - some send back entire virus to forged e-mail address,
contributing to distribution of viruses to innocent people...

Thats why these various anti-spam tools shold be able to distinguish between
spam and viruses. In case of at least most of viruses there should be no
response while in case of ordinary spam - possibly a response could be send
(possibly only, since in these cases "From" is forget often as well).

zb.



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