I'd suggest you try convincing them to send just straight ZIP files. It would be safer for all concerned. After all you risk is their risk.
Kevin Childers NetQuick Customer Support. (910) 486-7845 / (888) 228-0312 Fayetteville Internet Communications APCNet - FayNet - NetQuick - QuickWAN ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Welch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 5:25 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] rules.ima > I am in the magazine publishing industry, and some of our advertisers & authors send us self-extracting compressed files. I hope our host doesn't decide to block .exe files. > > I am not an imail owner, but rather a domain administrator at an imail host. I have been watching the virus-catching threads with interest. It bothers me that hosts would block particular files as attachments. This should be on the end user's head, it is not the host's responsibility or right to block any of my incoming files. I might need and want them. > > One could also argue that they have no right to block spam. After all, how are my employees going to find out how to visit web sites involving doing strange things with animals? (In spite of the serious nature of my initial thoughts, I am not without a sense of humor.) > > Charlie Rhodes wrote at 10:04 AM 12/05/2001 -0500: > > >Here is a list of attachment types we block. It gives us some false > >positives, but not too many. > >"wsh" > >"vbx" > >"shs" > >"scr" > >"exe" > >"bat" > >"vbs" > >"cab" > >"nws > >"asp" > >"dll" > >"eml" > >"cmd" > >"xml" > >"pif" > >"sys" > >"asd" > >"chm" > >"ocx" > >"vbe" > >"wsf" > >"js" > > > Michael Welch > > ------------------------ > "A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn." > unknown > > Michael Welch, [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.homepower.com > Managing Editor, Home Power magazine > Office Coordinator, Redwood Alliance > (Not HP mag numbers) 707-822-7884 fax: 707-822-3481 > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
