At 10:08 AM 4/17/02 -0800, Lee Ross wrote the following:

>The next logical step was to contact my server to see in they could give me
>any insight as to why my messages were getting stopped by their equipment.
>Marlene had checked and verified that the messages were not getting bounced
>on her end at pcworks. This brings me to the conversation with the tech at
>my server. The first thing he said was that I needed to get rid of Zone
>Alarm and use a hardware firewall. So now, because of his unfamiliararity
>with Eudora and ZA, he has asked me use Outlook Express to send messages to
>the list and see if that works. He also suggested that the list might be
>shut down but did contact the list at that point to verify that it was up
>and running.

What a bunch of "$%$#@". Typical response from an MS droid tech.

Hardware firewalls are used in corporate environments to protect the
corporate LAN (or WAN) from the outside when the corporate LAN/WAN is also
connected to the Internet.

Internet -- Firewall -- Proxy Server(s) -- Intranet (LAN/WAN)

If you happen to be using a router like LinkSys that has built-in NAT
firewall you should still use a PC firewall program like ZA. In fact, the
references given in the past few days say the same thing. See
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020412S0009

I have been using Eudora since it first came out. I also use ZA with my
Earthlink DSL line. In fact, I even used it with a LinkSys and a Netgear
router that both had built-in firewalls. This has since been changed to a
plain Netgear hub. And yes I also use AVG.


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Gerry Boyd
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