Silent virus quarantine?

[John Rudd]

On Friday, Aug 22, 2003, at 10:01 US/Pacific, Antony Stone wrote:

>
> On Friday 22 August 2003 5:53 pm, John Rudd wrote:
>
>> On Friday, Aug 22, 2003, at 08:35 US/Pacific, Julian Field wrote:
>>> At 16:32 22/08/2003, you wrote:
>>>> Do viruses in the silent virus list get quarantined?
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>
>> That seems like a bug to me.  Or, at least, a design contradiction.
>>
>> If the message is silently deleted, how will anyone know that you need
>> to pull it out of quarantine?  How will anyone find it if you don't
>> know where it was quarantined, because the report was never sent to
>> anyone?
>
> That's not quite what silent means - it doesn't guarantee that the
> message is
> 'deleted' (ie never delivered to anyone).
>
> You might choose to mark as 'Virus' and deliver to recipients all
> messages
> which contained viruses (after removing them, of course), but the
> 'silent'
> indicator means not to bounce anything back to the (forged) sender
> saying
> they just sent a virus.

Aren't those two different options we're talking about?

you're talking about "notify senders" being yes or no.   I'm talking
about the silent virus option, which DOES quietly discard the message
that would have been sent on to the recipient.