Hi tracer,
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 08:33:16 +0700GMT (19/02/2000, 09:33 +0800GMT),
tracer wrote:
>>> I receive a lot of .doc and .xls attachments from Outlook users and
>>> have no problems with it.
t> I dump them and then tell the user that my server zaps exe, doc, xls,
t> bmp's as attachment and can they please zip or jpeg them and resend...
t> They do...
I can't do that; even my head office sends me .doc files and .xls
files. That's the difference between regular commercial business
(mine) and computer-related business (yours). It is even an
instruction to send the monthly financial results as Excel files. The
company is over 200 years old; for a German company, I should be happy
that they recognize email as a means of communication (introduced
last year!).
t> I see absolutely no need to have to receive bulky stuff if all they
t> need to do is to compress before sending it.
Head office even sent me a multi-page powerpoint presentation
uncompressed! I was about to delete the messages with the huge
attachments before downloading, but fortunately saw the sender before
doing that. ;-)
t> I blame it normally as part of antivirus protecion and anyway thats
t> true.
t> I have had sofar 2 emails with attachments from MS which had a macro
t> virus...
My head office has a major firewall does catches more viruses (I
believe that's the most commonly-used plural <g>). Of course, I have
an always-updated fully-paid AV realtime protection programme running;
an absolute necessity.
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Cheers,
Thomas.
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