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Subject: Re: Virus Protection at the Firewall
From: Rick Romkey <pokey @ maddie . atlantic . com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:02:43 -0400 (EDT)
To: dufresne @ parka . winternet . com (Ron DuFresne)
Cc: mwallace @ netcom . com, little @ hks . com, charlesj @ iquest . net, firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <Pine . GSO . 3 . 95q . 970423121420 . 29759A-100000 @ parka . winternet . com> from "Ron DuFresne" at Apr 23, 97 12:16:44 pm

 
> 
> I was replying to Rick Romkey's skepticism that virus scanning of mail is
> pointless. But the vast majority of users that I know of don't even know
> what PGP is still, let alone us it. No virus scanning will ever be able
> to deal with encryption without being able to descrypt, obviously, and
> that is unacceptable.
> 


Wow.  I never remember saying that scanning mail for viruses is pointless.
I thought I said it was a good idea.  I'm all in favour of having virus
scanning at the firewall, at the proxy server, in email, at the beach, etc.
Please quote the right people, or at least get the quote right.

-Rick

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