List Attachments? (Was: RE: VIRUS ON THIS LIST) (fwd)

[David Sowder]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Joseph Rosenblatt wrote:
>Bob Deskin wrote:
>>I do not have a handy web or ftp site to easily and conveniently post
>things to.
>
>Why not? Surely COGNOS can afford to let you use a corner of their web site?
>How do you develop PH Web?
>
>Bob Deskin is one of the few people that has a legitimate need to send an
>attachment. I surely would not want his ability to disseminate information
>hindered in anyway. The question is how do we do it safely?

Perhaps Bob Deskin could use one of the free web hosting sites for
attachments were it to be to impractical to arrange for such on the
official COGNOS site.

>My earlier suggestion regarding attachments was just  that a suggestion. If
>it is not a good viable solution then let us consider it no further. I agree
>that it is not the function of a free service to provide me with virus
>protection. That said, if we are to continue to use this service we need to
>have a small sense of security. Since I know nothing about how difficult it
>is to provide that modicum of security, I will allow my betters to decide
>what to do and will abide by their decision.

I have briefly looked into a virus scanner for all Email traveling through
our mail servers, but it is rather low on my TODO list considering that
a very major portion of our school's network users do not use Microsoft
Email clients.

--
David R. Sowder
Network Manager/Lead Software Technician
Southwestern Adventist University
http://www2.swau.edu/~davids/         Primary Email Address:   davids@swau.edu

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