I am an Imail administrator working for an ISP, and I do not want to leave the job of scanning viruses up to the users. Once these folks open their attachments and infect their computer, our bandwidth usage jumps straight into the stratosphere. Like most ISPs nowadays, we pay for our bandwidth, and these virii have a very real influence on our profitability.
---- A. Clausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Welch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 08:25 Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] rules.ima > 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 > > ------------------------ > "The tragedy of modern war is not so much that young men die but that they die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals." > Edward Abbey > > Michael Welch, [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.homepower.com > Managing Editor, Home Power magazine > Office Coordinator, Redwood Alliance > (Not HP mag numbers) 707-822-7884 fax: 707-822-3481 > > > 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/ > 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/
