Please stop bouncing infected emails!

[Julian Field]

Please read
www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/reject.html

At 16:01 06/09/2003, Brian Tompsett wrote:
>  Please stop bouncing infected emails!
>
>http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/sobigbounces/
>
>Email server administrators, please read this message.
>
>If your mail server is set up to bounce emails with viruses attached
>with a message to the sender, please turn that feature off. Unless
>you've been in a cave for the past few days, you know that tens of
>millions -possibly hundreds of millions- of emails carrying the
>sobig.f virus have been hammering email servers worldwide. Not a
>single one of these emails has the sender in the FROM: field. Not one
>of them.
>
>The person listed in the FROM: field is not infected with a virus.
>Someone with that person in their address book is infected. Your
>bounce message serves no useful purpose and is contributing actively
>to this problem. For Christ's sake, stop bouncing the virus emails.
>Route them to /dev/null/ and be done with it.
>
>By bouncing these emails, you are making the problem twice as bad as
>it is already is. Please, look at the CPU and bandwidth usage of your
>servers. Every email server on the planet connected to the internet is
>under the same or greater load, and you, personally, are contributing
>to that load.
>
>  Brian Tompsett
>  Universities of Hull, Edinburgh and London
>  +44 1482 465222
>
> >From Postmaster at hull.ac.uk Sat Sep 06 09:50:28 2003
>Received: from [150.237.196.2] (helo=mailhub3.hull.ac.uk)
>         by mailhub.dcs.hull.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2)
>         id 19vYm3-0002hS-00
>         for bct at dcs.hull.ac.uk; Sat, 06 Sep 2003 09:50:27 +0100
>Received: from ensim.dbzgtlegacy.com by puccini.ucc.hull.ac.uk with ESMTP; 
>Sat, 6 Sep 2003 09:49:57 +0100
>Received: (from root at localhost)
>         by ensim.dbzgtlegacy.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h86Lq0231137;
>         Sat, 6 Sep 2003 16:52:00 -0500
>Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 16:52:00 -0500
>Message-Id: <200309062152.h86Lq0231137 at ensim.dbzgtlegacy.com>
>From: "MailScanner" <postmaster at ensim.dbzgtlegacy.com>
>To: b.c.tompsett at dcs.hull.ac.uk
>Subject: Warning: E-mail viruses detected
>X-MailScanner: generated
>Status: RO
>Content-Length: 634
>
>Our virus detector has just been triggered by a message you sent:-
>   To: smith at amazinghumor.com
>   Subject: Re: Your application
>   Date: Sat Sep  6 16:52:00 2003
>Any infected parts of the message (application.pif)
>have not been delivered.
>
>This message is simply to warn you that your computer system may have a
>virus present and should be checked.
>
>The virus detector said this about the message:
>Report: application.pif contains Worm.Sobig.F
>Shortcuts to MS-Dos programs are very dangerous in email (application.pif)
>
>
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