>I am in the magazine publishing industry, and some of our advertisers & >authors send us self-extracting compressed files. I hope our host doesn't >decide to block .exe files.
For everybody's sake, I hope they do. >I am not an imail owner, but rather a domain administrator at an imail >host. I have been watching the virus-catching threads with interest. It >bothers me that hosts would block particular files as attachments. At this point, we know that a large class of extensions are "dangerous" vectors for email-borne nastiness. exe included. dey be blocked, mon. >This should be on the end user's head, it is not the host's responsibility >or right to block any of my incoming files. I might need and want them. The mail admin sets and publishes the policies, not the users. >One could also argue that they have no right to block spam. yawn, let's not start that sterility. I guess you hate RBL servers, too? >After all, how are my employees going to find out how to visit web sites >involving doing strange things with animals? (In spite of the serious >nature of my initial thoughts, I am not without a sense of humor.) self-congratulation will get you nowhere. :)) Just tell them (as if they didn't already know) about ampland.com, persiankitty.com, and follow the zillions of links from there. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
