[Mimedefang] Re: Scary... Filtering on the outbound.

[George Kuetemeyer]

>I think you're all ugly and your momma's dress you funny.
>Filter that. ;)

>Notice how it presently only seems to work with Exchange.

>In a way, that infers that only us "intelligent" folks use behemoth's like 
>sendmail. So... we don't need big brother scanning our email.

There's another issue with non-business-related email that wasn't
brought up in that link. A few years ago we started noticing that on
many days 50% or more of our  internal SMTP traffic consisted of
joke/inspirational attachments. We've since started
quarantining/bouncing offending attachments and have seen noticeable
improvement in performance.  I'm surprised that virus vendors haven't
started including these attachments in their signatures. In some
respects they're worse than viruses, since sizes tend to be 1 MB or
more.