SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity (was Re:Clueless anti-virus )

Fri Dec 9 18:29:51 UTC 2005

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geo." <geoincidents at nls.net>
To: <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 10:59 AM
Subject: RE: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity (was 
Re:Clueless anti-virus )

>
>>>It doesn't matter what the notifications look like.  There is no reason
> that
> my SMTP server should be subject to more than TEN THOUSAND of these damned
> things every day, <<
>
> I hear you but you and I both know AV companies are not going to give up 
> the
> automated spamming feature that easily. A standard message beginning they
> might be willing to impliment in a relatively short time and AV software 
> is
> constantly updated so this could make a difference and happen relatively
> quickly.
>
> As for the quantity you receive, its nothing compared to the amount of 
> spam
> those infected machines are soon going to be generating.
>
> George Roettger
> Netlink Services

They may not a choice if those that are being hammered with their 
auto-generated DSN's deem it unusually high traffic rate and simply black 
list the domains using these devices. AOL.com comes to mind and a few others 
in the recent weeks that are hammering me with notifications that weren't 
sent by anyone within my network.

That's the problem that I'm looking at George, the amount of traffic that 
those systems will be generating in the future. Including the bogus DSN's 
that are a direct result of that initial burst traffic.

Mike P.