John Kielkopf said:
> Dennis Peterson wrote:
>
>>Bill Shupp said:
>>
>>
>>>Thanks for the quick response.
>>>
>>>Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Are you scanning all email?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Not outgoing mail (from our users), but all incoming mail, yes.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Don't you think it a bit rude to require all of us to scan your user's
>>mail for you?
>>
>>
>
> For those that scan outgoing, how much has your outgoing filter actually
> caught?
>
> I currently do scan outgoing but often wonder if it's worth the effort,
> since it's never caught a single virus.

All mail-borne viruses were outgoing from somewhere but unscanned or
unsuccessfully scanned. It's very much worth the effort, what ever that
means. It is no sweat to me to scan them - I barely know it's happening as
it's all automated. I'm only seeing a million messages a week so I'm not
the largest shop on the net, but we do see outgoing viruses. Not only
that, but we trap a lot of outgoing spam, too. If we wouldn't accept it
why would we send it?

BTW, gathering a list of those who do not scan outgoing is very helpful
for the rest of us as it makes blacklisting them sooo easy. Thanks for
helping.

dp
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