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slightly off-topic: erronenous bounces -- false positives, MX hosts
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Pete Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 4 May 2000 15:56:13 -0400
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I'm sadden to report that the recent email virus is causing pathological behaviors in some mail hosts:

1) false positives of viruses notification

2) use of *misconfigured* least-preferred MX hosts

3) bounces due to excessive RFC822 TO: field entries / length

/Pete Weiss @ Penn State (where the luv-bug-has-bitten)

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