Tom Metro wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: > >> Gerard Seibert wrote: >> >>> ...I am not particularly interested in scanning outgoing mail. >>> >> Because you don't scan outgoing mail I have to scan incoming mail from >> you.
That makes me think of two things: 1 - The corollary to that.... Because I don't trust your virus scanner, I scan incoming mail from you. Therefore your scanning of outbound mail is of limited value. Obviously the authors of viruses won't scan their outbound mail, so scanning inbound mail is needed. 2 - Cause and effect You say, "You don't scan outgoing mail so you have to scan incoming mail". Are you saying that if you knew the mail was already scanned, you would not scan it? How do you know if it's been scanned? If you received an e-mail with a header "X-Virus-Status: Clean" would you trust it and not scan it yourself? (See corollary above) Scanning outbound mail may reduce the proliferation/spreading of viruses, but scanning inbound mail is necessary because the very people you are protecting yourself from are the ones who "won't play fair". _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
