[ale] Recipe to filter latest gunk

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 18:30, F. Grant Robertson wrote:
> Maybe it's nuts, but at this point I've just blocked anything with a mime
> attachment that matches a regexp of a list of extensions..  .scr, .pif,
> .exe, (and many more). Zips, mp3's, .url I'm letting through. I can't think
> of many good reasons to allow people to attach any of the types I'm blocking
> and, it's certainly cut down on the BS.
> 
> Anyone else running mailservers, what are you doing (if anything) to keep
> your users from shooting themsevles in the foot?
> 

I charge by the hour to clean up the mess. :)

After about 2 calls to make the boss's box work right again, everyone
quits auto-opening emails, downloading "free, registration required"
games and starts listening about how to use common sense on the net.

Once they get sick of the overall volume of garbage coming in, I set a
mail server with spamassassin and anti-virus tools, load up Mozilla onto
their M$ box and show them how wonderful OpenOffice is.

Then they start asking if I can test to see if the specific app they
must use in their business has a Linux equivalent, or will it run under
wine or crossover-office.

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