[rescue] Re: Re: Determining the country of orgin for IP address(es)

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Kurt Huhn wrote:

> I guess I just can't say it enough - SMTP IS NOT A FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL!!
> To the chagrin of many a DefendNet manager I once set the inbound
> attachement limit to 5MB at the Sendmail and virus scanning gateways
> (internal mail server was Exchange).  When asked, by the CEO, why - I
> muttered something about security exploits with large files, word docs,
> economies of scale, the last word macro that got through, the fact that
> we're (er, were) a security company, yadda yadda yadda...  I didn't hear
> anything about it afterwards...

Am I wrong to think you should have said "Yeah, you're right.  It is
WAY too high."  And chopped it down to 500K? =)

Seriously, I read the 5MB limit and thought that was too high....

--Kurt