[67133] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: antivirus in smtp, good or bad?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Tue Feb 3 10:54:25 2004
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 10:49:34 -0500
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
Cc: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <401FBE7E.3010803@outblaze.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Joe Maimon [2/3/2004 8:43 PM] :
>
>> What you are saying is that every mailhost on the Internet should run
>> up to date and efficient virus scanning? Pattern matching and header
>> filtering? Should the executable attachmant become outlawed on the
>> Internet? Recognize when a "to be bounced email" is a spoof and
>> discard the DSN?
>
>
> You are going to an extreme there I'm afraid ... I do agree that
> exaggeration helps stress a point, but ...
>
<snip>
What I was really trying to say is that it is far from a simple topic.
