dear APPs ADs...

[Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>]

Please charter a wg to standardize the email format for virus reports.  
After that (and it may already exist), please charter a wg to take a 
clue-by-four to the AV vendors who don't use it -- I'd *love* to filter 
out all reports alleging that I'd sent a virus, since as far as I know 
there are no NetBSD viruses.

Actually, given that the AV companies generally know when an email worm
uses fake From: lines, they could, in principle, avoid sending such 
mail even now.  OK -- let's charter a wg to use a clue-by-eight 
instead...


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb