On 5 Sep 01 at 0:40, Samuel Heywood wrote:
>>Is the virus checker also supposed to prevent subscribers from
>>*sending* viruses?
Good question.
>>Another question: Does the virus checker cause long delays
>>between the time an email message addressed to you is received by
>>your ISP and the time your email message becomes available for you
>>to download? It would seem that incoming email messages would
>>tend to be delayed for a while if all messages received by your ISP
>>would have to be queued into the virus checker for processing
>>before they could become available for download by the addressees.
>>
>>Of course I can readily recognize the benefits of having your ISP
>>scan all incoming emails for viruses. There are probably some
>>inherent disadvantages in having such a system in place at your ISP,
>>otherwise almost all other ISPs would install a similar system.
>>So far I have not developed an opinion as to whether the advantages
>>of the system outweigh the disadvantages.
>>
>>Does anyone have any comments on the matter?
I like the idea. It would have saved me from downloading 7 copies of
this 20k attachment on this laptop with 14.4k modem. BTW, the reason
I received them is that my ISP's filtering service, Brightmail, is
having some problem, so they are not filtering our email till they
get things fixed.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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