Matt Fretwell wanted us to know:

>> as it is harder to scan those messages for viruses
> Nonsense. Mail is mail. If you are running a mailserver, it should be
>able to cope with all types of mail, irrelevant of (creation|submission)
>method.

Nonsense.  A user clicks on a webmail message, opens the the trojan
du jour, and whammo, the whole company is infected by the exploit that
is unleashed * FROM * WITHIN * without ever having passed through a
virus scanner on your side.  Think bigger scale.
-- 
Regards...              Todd
  We should not be building surveillance technology into standards.
  Law enforcement was not supposed to be easy.  Where it is easy, 
  it's called a police state.             -- Jeff Schiller on NANOG
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