Because the vendors are so lame as to have that enabled by default.

John T
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
> Behalf Of Kevin Stanford
> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 10:11 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [sniffer] Joe Jobs...
> 
> That brings a question up...why do some/many/most postmasters feel that it
> is so important to notify senders of a virus to a "spoofed" email address?
> Also, I have yet to see a legitimate email that contained a virus..so why
> not turn the notification off all together?
> 
> Just curious...
> 
> Kevin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of Pete McNeil
> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 11:30 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [sniffer] Joe Jobs...
> 
> Hello Sniffer Folks,
> 
>   Please be aware that there are several spam and possibly virus
>   (other malware?) campaigns being transmitted with my madscientist
>   address and possibly other addresses from our company in the From:
>   headers and SMTP envelope.
> 
>   Though this has happened in the past at low levels, I have noted
>   recently a very high level of bounces and warnings returning to me
>   (erroneously) from systems that claim they have received viruses and
>   spam from my address.
> 
>   I suspect that this might have been triggered by recent press
>   activity, - especially a Washington Post article which included my
>   email address without modification.
> 
>   If you receive any of these messages, please treat them as the
>   spam/malware that they are and ignore the source.
> 
>   I have verified that we are not sending any such messages (
>   unintentionally) from any of our systems.
> 
> Thanks,
> _M
> 
> Pete McNeil (Madscientist)
> President, MicroNeil Research Corporation Chief SortMonster
> (www.sortmonster.com) Chief Scientist (www.armresearch.com)
> 
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