SOT: Virus notifications.

Has anybody proposed a movement to establish NOT ENABLING EMAIL
NOTIFICATIONS OF INFECTION TO SENDERS as a 'best practice'? I for one am fed
up to my ears of dealing with explaining and re-explaining to users that WE
didn't send any viruses out. I think it has been pretty well established
that during a major outbreak these 'friendly' notifications do little more
than help clog up the already taxed internet, and since 100% of the
notifications I have received are due to spoofed addresses, they are
literally pointless and a waste of resources. Now I'm sure I could set up
some form of filter that I'd have to tweak for the rest of my life to just
drop these types of messages, but I would like to see "Disable email
notification to sender" as a documented Best Practice.

Feel free to chime in.

Dave
Wed May 19 11:48:20 CDT 2004

I agree, and hereby second the motion.

"IBC" <spamityspam@spam.spam> wrote in message
news:OuBTWvbPEHA.1516@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Has anybody proposed a movement to establish NOT ENABLING EMAIL
> NOTIFICATIONS OF INFECTION TO SENDERS as a 'best practice'? I for one am
fed
> up to my ears of dealing with explaining and re-explaining to users that
WE
> didn't send any viruses out. I think it has been pretty well established
> that during a major outbreak these 'friendly' notifications do little more
> than help clog up the already taxed internet, and since 100% of the
> notifications I have received are due to spoofed addresses, they are
> literally pointless and a waste of resources. Now I'm sure I could set up
> some form of filter that I'd have to tweak for the rest of my life to just
> drop these types of messages, but I would like to see "Disable email
> notification to sender" as a documented Best Practice.
>
> Feel free to chime in.
>
>

Chris
Thu May 20 07:28:06 CDT 2004

Thirded!

Chris Curtis

"Dave Stoecker" <david_stoecker@hotCOFFEEmail.com> wrote in message
news:uFKJaEcPEHA.3328@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> I agree, and hereby second the motion.
>
> "IBC" <spamityspam@spam.spam> wrote in message
> news:OuBTWvbPEHA.1516@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > Has anybody proposed a movement to establish NOT ENABLING EMAIL
> > NOTIFICATIONS OF INFECTION TO SENDERS as a 'best practice'? I for one am
> fed
> > up to my ears of dealing with explaining and re-explaining to users that
> WE
> > didn't send any viruses out. I think it has been pretty well established
> > that during a major outbreak these 'friendly' notifications do little
more
> > than help clog up the already taxed internet, and since 100% of the
> > notifications I have received are due to spoofed addresses, they are
> > literally pointless and a waste of resources. Now I'm sure I could set
up
> > some form of filter that I'd have to tweak for the rest of my life to
just
> > drop these types of messages, but I would like to see "Disable email
> > notification to sender" as a documented Best Practice.
> >
> > Feel free to chime in.
> >
> >
>
>

SuperGumby
Sat May 22 06:38:26 CDT 2004

not only that, but I've been turning off notification to recipients (don't
think I've ever enabled notifiation to senders) because they're not really
interested in knowing how successful the AV is.

--
I'd rather be happy than right anyway.
Slartibartfast.
"Chris Curtis" <support@no_spam_nil-dram.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Thirded!
>
> Chris Curtis
>
> "Dave Stoecker" <david_stoecker@hotCOFFEEmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uFKJaEcPEHA.3328@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > I agree, and hereby second the motion.
> >
> > "IBC" <spamityspam@spam.spam> wrote in message
> > news:OuBTWvbPEHA.1516@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > > Has anybody proposed a movement to establish NOT ENABLING EMAIL
> > > NOTIFICATIONS OF INFECTION TO SENDERS as a 'best practice'? I for one
am
> > fed
> > > up to my ears of dealing with explaining and re-explaining to users
that
> > WE
> > > didn't send any viruses out. I think it has been pretty well
established
> > > that during a major outbreak these 'friendly' notifications do little
> more
> > > than help clog up the already taxed internet, and since 100% of the
> > > notifications I have received are due to spoofed addresses, they are
> > > literally pointless and a waste of resources. Now I'm sure I could set
> up
> > > some form of filter that I'd have to tweak for the rest of my life to
> just
> > > drop these types of messages, but I would like to see "Disable email
> > > notification to sender" as a documented Best Practice.
> > >
> > > Feel free to chime in.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>