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Re: Possible virus sending large emails?
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Date: 
Thu, 30 May 2002 22:32:48 GMT
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mattdm@{Spamcake}mattdm.org
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Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote:
I'm all in favor of mail servers stripping viruses from attachments, and
perhaps notifying someone makes sense, but probably in the case of a
virus like this, no notification should be sent.

Yeah; the people making the notifiers didn't think of that, obviously.

--
Matthew Miller           mattdm@mattdm.org        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux      ------>                <http://linux.bu.edu/>



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  Re: Possible virus sending large emails?
 
(...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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