On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:46:23 GMT, "Alan J. Flavell"
<a.flavell@???> wrote:
> I've nothing against you personally: I've plenty of experience myself
> of "suits" taking an inappropriate technical decision "over the heads
> of" those they pay to do the technical work.
Don't worry, none taken :-)
> - person unknown tried to send virus to me, counterfeiting the
> sender address of an innocent party (say, P).
>
> - service provider (say, S) intercepted the virus and composed an
> anti-virus report to the innocent party, P
>
> - P's mail box was full, so the receiving MTA for P rejected the
> report from S
>
> - S then composed a non-delivery report for the anti-virus
> non-delivery report, and sent it to *me*.
Exact same thing has happened to me also - ouch. We stopped anti-virus
software from sending out "warnings" ages ago. It just makes a bad
situation worse.
Cheers
Patrick
