Silent virus quarantine?

[Julian Field]

At 19:05 22/08/2003, you wrote:
>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.

That depends on the
Still Deliver Silent Viruses
option.
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