Frustration with spurious posts.

[JanC]

Alan Kennedy <alanmk at hotmail.com> schreef:

> But if an email is sent from an individual to an individual, then such
> "you sent me a virus!" emails can be very useful information.

If you know what you're doing: okay.  But that means you should always 
check a malware database to know how it works first.
 
> Is there some sort of mail header that these virus checking gateways
> could examine, to see if the email is from a list, rather than an
> individual, before it sends these emails?

Most mailing-list software adds some typical headers that can be used for 
that.  At least Mailman & Majordomo do and they are the most-used ones.

-- 
JanC

"Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving."
RFC 1958 - Architectural Principles of the Internet - section 3.9