Sobig getting tagged as spam not virus

[Julian Field]

At 16:49 22/08/2003, you wrote:
>On Friday, Aug 22, 2003, at 06:58 US/Pacific, Julian Field wrote:
>
>>So the whole argument depends on
>>1) How your CPU power relates to your network speed
>>2) What the balance is of infected mail versus spam mail
>>3) What you do with most of your spam (i.e. delete it or not)
>>4) and probably some other factors I haven't thought of yet.
>>
>>So it's a very difficult choice, and one that changes with
>>         a) your setup, and
>>         b) the characteristics of your incoming mail at any given
>>point in
>>time.
>
>Since we don't delete any spam, it's probably not saving us much.
>
>How hard would it be to have the order be configurable?
>
>Scanning Order = filename virus spam dnsbl
>Scanning Order = spam dnsbl virus filename

See my other posts, but I'm not sure anyone would ever be able to actually
deduce what the setting should be for their site. Remember that most people
aren't even capable of changing the X- headers.
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