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Re: Rejecting viruses the Right Way[tm]



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On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 09:41:11PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> The problem of _not_ enforcing use of smart hosts is that you've now got
> viral spew from many point sources rather than a single point (or small
> set of points) which can be reasonably filtered, monitored, and/or
> controlled.

I'm not big on enforcing smarthosts.  For one thing, my upstream
couldn't run a mail server if it's life depended on it.  So why
eliminate small but working sites from being able to mail, forcing
them to forward everything through broken sites?

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