At 05:27 PM 6/3/2004, Randy Brukardt wrote:
...
> > You really ought to switch to Trash Finder (at least the free Classic
> > edition), which will allow you to catch extensions in attachments and
not
> > trigger on them when they happen to appear in URLs or text.
> >
> > http://www.rrsoftware.com/html/prodinf/tf/tf-main.html
> >
> > Antibanner is a blunt instrument, and it is slow as well.
>
> Being a university site with on-campus student residential colleges
> wired into the network, i like the blunt instrument. several thousand
> "unmanaged" computers get plugged into the network every year.
I fail to see what unmanaged users have to do with blocking mail that does
not violate any sane rule. Too many false positives, and users start
pressuring to relax the rules. I wrote TF to cut the number of false
positives and the number of missed messages (both are a problem as
Antibanner does not decode Base64 messages, and thus cannot scan them).
I realize that TF can be annoying for blocking text strings, because
sometimes you really do want to detect them everywhere. (That's on my to-do
list.) But blocking particular kinds of attachments (and blocking URLs) is
really what TF is good at, and not using it for that seems silly.
But I'm biased, and YMMV.
I was howling with laughter when i saw that whole thread.
i mean really.
for starters, there is no reason to not just virus filter and allow
those kind of attachments... at least you put the dot in front of
it so it doesn't whack half of the incoming mail due to spelling.
to each their own, but i'd go nuts trying to manage a mailserver with
that many possible false positives.
nevermind that it conflicts with his *own* urls and he hasn't bothered
to work around it.
(hint, put a space after the last e)
-dd
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