I agree 100%. /Peter Bonivart
--Unix lovers do it in the Sun On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 18:44, Stephen White wrote: > I think you've just found a benefit. I can't afford to run a commercial > virus scanner on the mailing list server I run for a couploe of > non-commercial reasons (eg for the benefit of my local Scout Group) ... > however clamav should provide reasonable protection against members of > the lists infecting each other via the messages to one of the lists. > > I don't need to disinfect the messages, I just want to make a reasonable > attempt to stop infected ones being delivered to the intended > victims^Wrecipients. The sender will see the bounce, disinfect their > computer (with whatever anti-virus software they have, or purchase some > if not) and send out a clean version themselves. It's not my job to > clean the attachments, in fact that's entirely counter productive > because it removes one of the immediate reasons that the sender would > have for disinfecting themselves - and if the email isn't disinfected > properly it would shift some of the reponsibility for the distribution > of the virus onto me. I'm suspect that 90% of mailserver administrators > probably have similar objectives. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
