Chris Hunt wrote at 08:46 AM 12/06/2001 -0500:
>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
Hi Chris. All of our authors are amateur writers and many of our advertisers are mom &
pop businesses. Many don't even have FTP client apps, let alone know how to use them.
All that aside, on a philosophical level, I do not want my host telling me what I can
and cannot receive. But I understand the host admin reasoning for doing so.
As an aside, I deal with literally hundreds of email messages every day, running my
crew of telecommuting editors. On my client computer I do not run anti-virus apps in
the background, and I have NEVER become infected. I try hard at any opportunity to
educate folks about how to NOT get viruses.
I understand that this is a technical forum, but I just had to stick up for the
concept of NOT filtering executable enclosures in front of all you able admins, lest
everyone automatically think it is the right thing to do. Say the word, all you nerds
(not a put-down), and I will shut up about this.
Michael Welch
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