"OMG YOU SENT TEH VIRUSESS"

[Jason Balicki]

As an update to this, I received a response today.

Does anyone have any ammo I can use in response to
this:

Begin quote:
As for the virus notifications, as pointless as it may seem to you, it's
our company policy to attempt to inform possibly infected systems
(whether they are forged or not) if they have sent us an infected
message and/or spam.  This company policy has proven effective on many
occasions over the past 7 years of having internet capable e-mail.  In
one such case we alerted a very large public safety organization of a
virus breakout on their network.  

If our policy is causing grief for your mailing list, let me know which
software you are using to manage it, I will personally do the research
to show you how to properly filter out these messages.

No-where in the RFC for SMTP mail does it cover virus notifications.  In
fact, the concept of silently deleting messages that could not be
delivered can be construed as contravening the RFC 1123.  Once an SMTP
system accepts the message with th 250 (OK) message in response to the
DATA command, it has the responsibility of delivering the message or
informing the sender (via return-path or from header).  If you can point
out a relevant RFC that prohibits these notifications, I will officially
turn them off.
End quote.

--J(K)

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