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| | | (...) What bugs me the most is that I know that it's sending out forged e-mails apparently from my e-mail address, and there's not a thing I can do about it. (23 years ago, 26-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Possible virus sending large emails? —Frank Filz
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| | | | (...) And I just got an e-mail from a mail server informing me that it had removed a virus from an e-mail I "sent"... Great, so how much additional traffic is going to be generated by this virus? I'm all in favor of mail servers stripping viruses (...) (23 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Possible virus sending large emails? —James Brown
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| | | | | (...) What the mail server should be doing isn't informing the "from", since the from header is easily forgable, as anyone who gets spam knows. What they should be doing is sending the warning back to the offending ISP or forwarder. You can verify (...) (23 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: Possible virus sending large emails? —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | (...) I don't think that's true -- the traffic impacts them directly. It's just a certain amount of work to configure, not to mention a moving target. We'll get there eventually. (22 years ago, 30-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Possible virus sending large emails? —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Yeah; the people making the notifiers didn't think of that, obviously. (22 years ago, 30-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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