virus scanners....

[Jonathan Larmour]

David Korn wrote:
> 
>   They do use ORBS and MAPS, IIRC, and there doesn't seem to be *very* much
> spam.  The viagra salesthings aren't in the black hole yet but they will be
> soon.  Perhaps the most useful thing the listmaster could do would be
> adding in an "Errors-To: <>" header, which ought to get most auto-generated
> replies (virus warnings, out-of-office autoacks and mailbox full receipts).

I'll suggest this. One reason real spam has been worse just recently is the
demise of ORBS.
 
> >I think you'll find that those are legitimate list members who have been
> >infected with a virus.
> 
>   Surely they are legitimate list members who have *not* been infected
> with a virus because their scanners caught it?

Sorry, I was thinking about the original spam.
 
> > And we can't easily screen it on MIME type because
> >it was application/mixed which could be legitimate. Perhaps we should
> >filter out all mail with "X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express" :-).
> 
>   Jifl, do you still need more coffee this morning?  I can't quite see how
> this relates to any of the earlier sentences[snip]

Yes, you're right. I'll get some coffee now. I offer a 54 mile cycle ride
yesterday, and aches and pains today, in mitigation.

BTW, are you the same Dave Korn from the cam.* newsgroups?

Jifl
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