Craig White wrote:

>On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 17:27, der.hans wrote:
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>>Am 04. Jul, 2003 schwätzte Alan Dayley so:
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>>>Some ISPs and businesses strip or drop emails with attachments known to
>>>potentially carry viruses.  This would be .vbs .pif .exe and .zip, amoung
>>>others.  I would suspect that somewhere along the way, someone's virus
>>>software is dumping your email.
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>>The businesses should not be dropping third party content. As much as I
>>generally loath attachments and would love for that capability to go away,
>>they should not change content that is not either coming from or being
>>delivered to an address they own.
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>>In the case of Cox forcing customers to use their mail daemons they should
>>not change the content of that email in any way unless they are actively
>>blocking an attack of some sort, e.g. knocking a SPAMmer off the air, or the
>>customers have asked for filtering. You don't want them forcing you to use
>>their mail server? Complain to the FCC and the BBB. Remind both
>>organizations that Cox has been granted a monopoly and therefore has an
>>obligation to not discriminate against certain classes of customers since
>>those customers don't have other options.
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>good thought but this was much ado about nothing...just a rant by
>someone who didn't check his facts before posting
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>Craig
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Well, I will admit that I shouldn't have stated that ISPs are dropping 
email or email content.  That was a blatent assumption on my part based 
on 3rd order or higher scuttle-but.  Sorry.

I do know, however, that many businesses do block emails or strip 
attachments of various "ususal" trojan or virus carrier files.  My 
employer does.  The companies of many people that I email to always 
strip .zip files.  If I want to send them a .zip, I have to rename it or 
they will not get the attachment.

If an ISP does it, that would be bad.

Alan