Re: Spam Filters vs. Mailing Lists

[Roger B.A. Klorese]

On Fri, 18 May 2001, Bernie Cosell wrote:
> Is this for real?  I occasionally get a message that has "IL*VEYOU" in it
> with a note saying that they munged it so that their message wont kick
> off virus-catchers... but that's SO ineffective I couldn't imagine that
> *sysops* actually did that kind of thing.

Before the content filtering capabilities were added to Sendmail Switch,
many customers were implementing MTA-side filters that did, in fact,
bounce as many legit virus notifications as the virii themselves.

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ROGER B.A. KLORESE                                          [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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