In most cases you will notify the sender that they are causing problems on the network — either by sending malware content, flooding the network, or some other unwanted activity. The notification assumes the sender is unaware of their activity and will stop or correct it when notified.

However, senders who are notified may use this information to circumvent administration’s precautions. For example if flood notification is set to 1000 messages per minute, a notified user may simply reduce their message to 990 messages per minute if this flood is intentional. For this reason, not all problems include sender notifications.

There are two methods of notifying senders:

And three details to consider for logging and notifying administrators: