COX strikes again

On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 17:27, der.hans wrote:
> Am 04. Jul, 2003 schwätzte 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 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

Craig