On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 18:48:37 David E Payne wrote:
Strangely some people think that infected email should be disinfected (modified) and sent on. I think that ideally it should be rejected with a SMTP 55x code and if that fails it should be discarded. If you know the message is bad then the recipient should never see it.
Firstly the correct way to quote text is to prepend each line with "> ". If you are using webmail or some other inadequate MUA then you can type them manually, I fixed the above text and you could have done so just as easily.
Maybe the best practice would be to send a message reporting that a message from say spankyhamy@spamspamspam.oink was infected & therefore discarded?
If an MTA rejects mail with a SMTP 55x then the sending MTA will generate a bounce message which informs the sender.
Otherwise it's a sort of stealthy censorship, just like whenever I reveal
Messages that have viruses are not from people and there's no censorship. Even when people manually send malware it's not censorship, please read the Wikipedia page about "censorship" or any other resource that defines it. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/