At 5:26 PM -0400 4/24/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In SIMS Digest #1381, Daniel Solomons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>As far as I know, SIMS does not block viruses. Any plans?
>
>Hopefully not!!! If you want to protect yourself against virii, do it on the
>machine
>that needs protection!
Well, one thing that would be nice is to be able to simply reject a
message based on the subject. This would go a long way towards
fighting spam and viruses without requiring any complicated logic or
scanning in the mail host. I mean if you could automatically delete
every email with the subject "I LOVE YOU" or "ANNA KORNAKOVA" (or
however it's spelled), you could save yourself a lot of hassle the
day those viruses are released. And how many spammers use original
subjects in their emails? I get spam with the same subject repeatedly
for weeks.
Of course, I realize that someone could send a legitimate email with
the same subject, but the benefits outweigh the down sides in my
opinion.
Darrin
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Darrin Cardani - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
President, Buena Software, Inc.
<http://www.buena.com/>
Video, Image and Audio Processing Development
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