Hopefully this thread can be stopped before it really gets going. Scott Said:
|>That you know of. :) | Len Said: |FUD. He knows what he knows, and his IMGate is not a disaster |or wildly |blocking tons of legit mail, or he nor anybody else would be using it. Pete (madscientist says): People used to think smoking was not harmful because they didn't know and because salesmen told them it was not harmful. Once upon a time asbestos was supposed to be a new wonder material - people didn't know. My point is not to paint Len in a bad light here - only to point out that what you don't know can hurt you. Nobody said that IMGate was blocking "tons" of legitimate email - only that there are aspects of it's operating principles which can be problematic and would be significantly so if there were a large scale deployment. What Scott is saying is not FUD but fact: Rejecting messages based on a single test - even a very good one - is more risky than using a balanced approach. Rejecting messages in a way that prevents any further analysis (other than a record that the event occurred) increases the risk that legitimate messages will be rejected without detection. Even on systems that accept messages for analysis and use the most comprehensive test structures false positive detection is far from sensitive enough in most cases. Not knowing can and does cause people to do harmful things without realizing the rammifications. "That you know of" is a perfectly reasonable, and legitimate caution. Not FUD. Any email admin should take into account that their operating policies will have a profound effect on what they do and do not know about their operations. Failing to consider information that might be hidden by a process/policy is not wise. That's not to say that the admin should never choose a solution which has a higher risk of "invisible consequences" - only that they should be aware that these consequences exist and that they should weigh those risks against the operational costs of their systems (and other factors). _M To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
