on Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 10:51:06AM +1000, Andrew Pollock (debian-lists@andrew.net.au) wrote:
> 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.
That is a problem for the vendor.
If the vendor can't modify their software to differentiate, then
notifation should simply be off.
Peace.
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