On Tuesday, May 3, 2005 at 4:09:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated:
> Cameron Biggart wrote:
>> The good news is though that this sort of thing usually stops on its own
>> when the people sending the mail decide to either pick on someone else
>> (if it's a malicious attack) or change email addresses because yours is
>> being blocked by too many people now.
>>
>> Sorry for the bad news.
> The fact remains that nowadays it is completely idiotic and itself a
> stupid waste on everyone's resources to attempt returns on virus-laden
> or spam messages. The odds are so against it actually doing some good,
> and so much in favor of simply giving innocent people a heartattack and
> wasting tech support time and bandwidth.
Totally in agreement. ALL of our virus scanning is set to automatically
discard and not notify either the sender or recipient. SpamAssassin rules are
likewise set in to score high on bounced virus warnings coming into the server
so they get properly dealt with so as to not scare the customer and cause the
tech support phones to ring off the hook.
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