[afnog] RE: W32.Sobig.E at mm

["Mark Tinka" <mtinka at africaonline.co.ug>]

>> unless it makes a difference as far as bandwidth/hard disk space/...
>> is concerned ;-)...
> 
> Well, it's up to the uol.co.ug management to decide whether the
> effort and expense of an AV filter (any decent AV solution is
> commercial) is going to save them sufficient bandwidth or disk space
> to make it worthwhile.   
> 
> I don't agree that they should implement it *for the benefit of the
> people who are subscribed to the list*, which is what was suggested,
> because that benefit is minimal and because the list members are
> unlikely to pay them for the time and money expended.   
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Brian.

Maybe if a list member decided to withdraw his subscription to the list, on
account of the uol.co.ug MX being a virus gateway, how much intellectual
benefit has been lost on that account?

This is all relative - service providers have anti-virus systems that check
even outgoing e-mail. Whose benfit is that? The sender as much as the
recipient's. Is the recipient paying the remote service provider to have
mail coming to him checked to be virus-free?

If uol.co.ug can't do it in this regard, perhaps they should do it for the
other "paying" domains on the server!

Regards,

Mark Tinka - CCNA
Network Engineer, Africa Online Uganda


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