On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Paul Vixie wrote:
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.
yea, if my sister in-law (who barely knows what 'computer' means most times) can come to the conclusion that: 1) all email viruses of note are outlook targetted 2) everyone with outlook gets viruses therefore 3) why would anyone ever run outlook why can't multibillion dollar companies figure that out? it does mystify me :)
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.)
go pine! (or mh or elm or... mailx!)