[Xorg] excessive bounces or excessive spam / viruses?

[Daniel Kasak]

I have a mimedefang / spamassassin / clam antivirus / sendmail setup on 
my gateway.
I bounce viruses and spam.
I understand that some people don't agree with the decision to bounce 
viruses, however I think silently dropping them is a worse idea still. 
Bouncing viruses at least keeps the threat of viruses currnet in 
people's mind - and that can't be a bad thing. If people object to 
receiving virus bounce messages, then they can filter them :)

I find it hard to believe that anyone would disagree with bouncing spam.

Now, every so often ( pretty often these days ) I get a message from the 
mailing list server saying that my account has been disabled due to 
excessive bounces. To that I respond, I must have received excessive 
viruses & spam. A quick check of my logs confirms this.

How about either loosening the rules on the excessive bounces, or 
implementing some decent filtering to prevent viruses & spam from being 
passed through? I have a lot of kids running around here, and 
advertisements for penis enlargements and objectionable porn is not 
appropriate ... coming through ANY of our email accounts ( hence the 
filter ).

Dan