anti-phishing mode shot down by mgmt

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Dec 2 17:27:22 GMT 2004


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Have they got any examples of it crying wolf? I agree it's not perfect,
but it can't be.
Perhaps you should setup your own in-house phishing scam to provide the
service locally? :-)

Jeff A. Earickson wrote:

> Julian,
>
> Management has asked me to turn off anti-phishing, which I did
> when I upgraded to 4.36.4 this morning.  They had gotten annoyed
> by it and thought it cried wolf too much.  We are back to the
> Darwin mode of "a fool and his money are soon parted."
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
>
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