16 Jun
2003
16 Jun
'03
2:18 a.m.
Should ISPs control what applications their customers can run?
frankly and truly, i would be satisfied if isp's wouldn't run outlook/exchange in their noc/abuse departments, so that they could safely accept mime-mail rather than bouncing it as their only means of keeping themselves virus-free. i love it when mime shows up here. mh-e just has no idea what to do with a "pif" or "exe" file. the whole concept of having to run "mime defang" at the gateway because an abuse desk worker or backbone engineer has a fragile user agent is completely ridiculous and there is no possible explaination for it. (if this is your situation then quit, or fire somebody, as appropriate.)