[Asrg] enough about backscatter

[John Levine]

>So, just to clarify, you are saying that the view of ASRG is that if an
>MTA receives a message which when checked using anti-virus software such
>as Sophos or ClamAV (note this, my discussion was not about other
>anti-spam techniques) give a positive, the correct course of action is
>to reject the message using a 5xx response?

That seems to be the consensus here, yes.

My MTA does rejects on anything that has an attached EXE file, and I don't
ever recall getting any complaints about backscatter.

R's,
John