Re: Mailscanner or amavisd-new

On 11/29/2011 6:04 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Tue, November 29, 2011 2:22 pm, Vinícius Ferrão wrote:
>> Agreed.
>>
>> Filtering Windows executables will only make the system admin to be
>> recognized as an asshole and windows-hater.
>
> I wouldn't class him/her as an ***hole or *******-hater.
> Simply as an incompetent braindead hobbyist who doesn't know what he/she
> is doing.
>
> Sadly, my ISP filters those on outgoing emails. Which makes it difficult
> for me to send stuff to friends/colleagues who know how to handle these
> things.

	Meh, I'd consider your point of view if the bad *.exe to good ratio 
weren't somewhere in the vicinity of a million to 1. No point in wasting 
the cycles passing them to AV when you can just reject them. The one 
user you're likely to affect can use dropbox, http, ftp, etc.

kashani