Re: [LARTC] question regarding spam and viruses

[David Hough <lists@llondel.org>]

On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 22:16 +0200, Michael Renzmann wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> S. Krishnan wrote:
> > OK, this is what is interesting.  The domain sentrisystems.com is
> > registered to an organization located in New Orleans in the USA, while
> > the email comes from a dialup host located on the India based Touchtel
> > ISP network, as pointed out by Denys.
> 
> Wow, you just discovered the fact that e-mail addresses can be faked.
> 
> > Can't the listadmin just block this address?
> 
> Can't people just look into the archives for past discussions on this
> topic? Can't people just put that address into their own blacklists?
> 
> Threads like this start to cause more traffic than the actual virus
> mails themselves. And they are at least as annoying as those mails.
> 
The problem is that many systems are configured to bounce viruses
(proper bounces, not annoying messages telling the wrong people that a
virus was detected) so enough viruses to the list will cause people to
get unsubscribed. It's worse with this list because the probe message
checking for failures includes a copy of the message causing the bounce,
so it gets rejected as well. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has to
re-subscribe every few days because of viruses. It wouldn't be hard to
just remove posting access from that particular email address, I don't
think I've ever seen a real post from it anyway.

The topic keeps coming up because those with the power to do something
useful about it haven't yet done it.

Dave


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