Am 04. Jul, 2003 schw=E4tzte Alan Dayley so:
> 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.
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.
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 th=
e
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.
ciao,
der.hans
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