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

[Ben Kamen]

George Kuetemeyer wrote:
> 
> 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.

Ya, I need to smack around some people I know who send me that kind of 
sh--t... er crap.

I would think the email admin's could just send out an email to all 
employees... "Personal emails are fine, just stop forwarding the chain emails!"

(shaking head)

  -Ben