On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 06:18 +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 06:41:23PM -0500, Chip Old wrote: > > > Unfortunately an increasing number of people are doing that, both for > > worm e-mail and spam e-mail. Even worse the practice has actually > > been recommended in various PopTech media. It's incredibly stupid > > because the sender address on virtually all spam and most current > > worms is forged. > > This discussion is confusing spam and viruses which are two seperate > issues.
Not at all. The discussion had shifted to the advisability of auto-responding to spam and virus-infected messages. Auto-responding to either is a bad idea because in most cases the apparant sender address is bogus. If you feel differently, by all means feel free to clog your own mail server (and your customers' mailboxes) with bounced messages and misdirected auto-replies. Trouble is you won't affect only your own mail system. -- Chip Old (Francis E. Old) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, BCPL Network Services Phone: 410-887-6180 Manager, BCPL.NET Internet Services FAX: 410-887-2091 320 York Road Towson, MD 21204 USA
