Re: Future of qmail: will it care about viri/worms/etc?

[Paul Farber]

But if you are the first one to sell 'secure' qmail servers you will be
the MS of .au!

Take a bad thing and make it into a good one.  That and make profit along
the way!

Paul Farber
Farber Technology
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On Fri, 5 May 2000, Kevin Waterson wrote:

> "David L. Nicol" wrote:
> 
> > Keith Warno wrote:
> > >
> > > there should be no need to "hack" qmail
> >
> > And there isn't!  Why do people persist on insecure MUAs?
> 
> My sentiment exactly.
> Why should I have to expend valuable time and resources fixing
> Microsofts dud ware.
> Here in .au there are rumblings of legislation for ISPs to block virii,
> these people have no concept of the difference between a virus and
> a worm or any other type of exploit, yet pressure is mounting on ISPs
> and, if legislated, means ISPs will be liable for loss and damage and
> loss of production because MS constantly fail to secure their systems.
> To effect this type of policy one would need to prohibit all
> attachments,
> scan each mail for vb/java script and why not peersonally read/censure
> each mail
> </rant>
> 
> Kevin
> 
>