On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Lance and Christine wrote:
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> You're welcome.
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> Filtering SMTP might catch some viri, but the odds are humblingly low.
> Wouldn't that money be better spent on hardware for firewall redundancy,
> maybe? Howabout more disks for logging. The C/B is way too low to
> justify the product, and the costs are not merely monetary, but also
> operational in terms of latency of mail deliveries, sluggish performance,
> etc.
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> I don't think the virus filters come close to being worth the cost.
>
Every organization I have worked with found that the best way to handle
the issue of viri is at the desktop workstation.
Later,
Ron DuFresne
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> Todd Graham Lewis MindSpring Enterprises tlewis @
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