HTML to Text only emails...

[wizard at neonedge.com (Wizard)]

Yeah, I had some initial concerns regarding the admin review, but they
assured me that it would be mainly just power users from each department
doing the reviews, and primarily they would be only responding to requests
like "where's my such-and-such attachment", so it sounds relatively safe.
They got hit pretty hard by the Love* virii, and with this recent worm
making it inside their firewall with all of the associated ports blocked,
they are trying to plug up all the holes. If they still find problems, they
may start locking down workstations, which they are trying to avoid.
Grant M.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Feldman [mailto:gaf at blu.org]
> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 12:11 PM
> To: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: Re: HTML to Text only emails...
>
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> On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 11:50:20 -0400
> "Wizard" <wizard at neonedge.com> wrote:
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> > A company that I do work for, in an effort to protect itself from it's
> > own lusers, is considering parsing emails so that any external HREFs
> > inside the email point to http://localhost. They are also going to
> > parse out all attachments to a central intranet location, where they
> > will be reviewed by admins for legitimacy before being forwarded to
> > the addressee. Can anyone see any problems with this strategy? (It
> > sounds valid to me, but I wanted to make sure I hadn't missed anything
> > before responding)
> I think that this is not entirely a bad idea. While we on this list tend
> to be technically oriented, the majority of the user communities in
> businesses are not very knowledgeable or disciplined. Many use MS
> Outlook or Outlook Express and their systems may not be very secure. If
> one user is infected by a virus or worm, that user can cause serious
> problems.
>
> Many of our listservs on BLU strip attachments and force all email to be
> plain text.
>
> The only reservations I have is the admin review. That may add work for
> admins, but it also can create problems.
> - --
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> Boston Linux and Unix user group
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