[30624] in bugtraq
Re: Email marketing company gives out questionable security advice
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadgeteer)
Mon Jul 7 16:59:03 2003
From: Gadgeteer <gadgeteer@elegantinnovations.org>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 07:55:12 -0600
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On Friday 04 July 2003 13:05, stonewall wrote:
> Education efforts aside, this
> puts us in the position of having to field complaints about "the damn
> firewall". Does anyone else deal with this?
We do considerable filtering/blocking for some of our customers. We have
found that there is a significant reduction in complaints if the filter
returns a friendly error message to inform the user that things are going
according to plan rather then allowing an access attempt to fail silently.
YMMV
--
Ken Dyke
Chief Gadgeteer, Elegant Innovaions
