From: Paul Robertson (probertsPATRIOT.NET)
Date: Tue Sep 02 2003 - 09:03:04 CDT

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On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Nick FitzGerald wrote:

> I know that word scares the beejezus out of most of them, but it's time
> for AV vendors of Email and other gateway scanning products to simply
> _remove_ "send warning to sender" options from their products. We have

I can see where attachment blocking information is sometimes important,
and as AV gateways move to be content gateways, simple removal won't
always work (though I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would
want their product to prove it knows the virus, knows it spoofs, and still
send a warning to the sender.)

The simplest solution is to switch from notifying based on return_path to
notifying based on forward_path. The recipient would know they didn't get
an intended attachment, and admins would be given more oppertunities to
disable the "feature" due to local management pressure. So, rather than
harming a 3rd party with local policy restriction notification, it'd be
all first-party. Heck, they could even sell the feature as notifying
local management of their AV gateway's protective features!

Paul
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