On Saturday, May 4, 2002, at 02:26 AM, Daniel Pittman wrote:

> On Sat, 4 May 2002, LuKreme wrote:
>> OK, I know SA is not an anti virus tool, and frankly I don't care
>> about viruses anyway, but I am getting a lot of exe file attachements
>> the last day or two
>
> [...]
>
>> I was surprised there wasn't a .exe rule or a application/octet-stream
>> rule.
>
> Those two statements seem to contradict each other. Given that you know
> that SpamAssassin is not a virus scanner, why are you surprised when it
> fails to detect virus content?

I know they contradict each other.  Still, it seems that Spamassassin is 
already running a lot of checks and having a application/octet-stream or a 
check for attachment types would be trivial to add.  Sort of a "while you'
re there."

> If you want to filter these, try something that's designed for the
> purpose.

Nah.. I don't care if windoids get viruses.  Actaully, it kinda gives me a 
warm feeling.  Does that make me a bad person, or just an elitist mac/unix 
geek?

:)

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