Michael, I work in the printing industry and since 1989 I've never seen a production job with .exe but .sea (Mac Self-Extracting Archive) is popular in the postscript environment. In your contract with your ISP make sure they don't block .exe if that is what you want just make sure you understand the consequences. You sure have a lot of faith for your end users. Most IT persons think that the user is the last place to handle viruses. If the senders don't understand how to Zip, Sea, Hqx files then some education is needed.
We get 50-100MB files all the time but our clients know better than to send via email. Much easier and efficient to FTP Chris At 02:25 PM 12/5/01 -0800, you wrote: >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. > >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. 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. > >One could also argue that they have no right to block spam. 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.) 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/
