OT: Article disparaging email scanners, MailScanner included

[Peter Peters]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 22:09:41 +0000, you wrote:

>I have tried to "educate" him.

I also try to educate admins using MS "the wrong way".

But one thing he is right:
|The most damning mail from these products not only purport to "warn you
|of infection", but they go so far as to advertise the product to you.
|This is unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE, aka "spam") in its purest
|form.

A large number of these message I handle as spam and complain about.

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Peter Peters, senior netwerkbeheerder
Dienst Informatietechnologie, Bibliotheek en Educatie (ITBE)
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