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Re: MEI Whitelist Autoresponse



On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 01:45:18PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote:
> 
> I think virus scanners are in a different class, though.  Mailing list
> software isn't designed to recognize viruses, while virus scanners are.
> It's disgustingly incompetent to recognize a mail as Sobig.F, which is
> known to fake the sender, and then reply to it anyway.  (And yes, I
> get a lot of "notifications" that mention Sobig.F by name.)

The (granted, commercial) SMTP virus scanners that I've had experience
with don't allow you to modify the notification behavior on a per virus
signature basis, it's either all on or all off.

Andrew

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