At 13:03 4/25/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> > Just because someone is too lazy to be smart about their files and
> > downloads and emails doesn't mean that it's someone else's fault.
>
>Speaking as someone who administers a corporate network:
Yes, but like I said. In a business environment you can and SHOULD do this
type of filtering with a full-featured program (like, say,
Comminicator). After all, it's YOUR computers you are protecting. Your
data. Your liability. This is not the role of the ISP. Corporate
networks do many things routinely that would be illegal for an ISP to do
(like monitoring the browser cache on the machines for one example).
>Of course the users are stupid. This is not news, nor is it useful to
>discuss how they could be smarter. They aren't, and part of my job
>description is minimizing the consequences of their stupidity. That's why I
>do backups ("Uh, if somebody accidentally deleted the trucking schedule,
>would it be fixable?"), and it's why I make antivirus precautions part of my
>job. The more tools I have to do that, the better it is for everybody.
If that's a tool you need then you need something much more than simply
SIMS. A corporate network should be filtering and archiving ALL the email
anyway, since the courts have decided to treat email with the same weigh as
official company publications.
SIMS is not the tool for that. In fact, I would submit that NO free tool
should be used for that. You want something you paid for so that if it
fails, YOU have someone to sue, to take the liability off yourself, if only
a little.
I, for one, do NOT want any sort of virus scanning in SIMS. I don't even
want the OPTION of virus scanning. If some future version of SIMS
incorporates it I will simply have to stop upgrading.
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