On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Josh Welch wrote: > Matt Murphy said: > > Way to be responsive to the needs of your users. Are you an > > enabler in your company, or someone that people have to get through to > > get their work done? Think about that the next time you don't get > > promoted. You can be plenty safe without disallowing executable files, > > and TRAINING (yes that means actually talking to users) is a big part of > > that. > > > I've found that the majority of users have no need of executable files, > .bat, .exe, .scr etc. They aren't the ones mailing them, they are all the > results of the various virii floating around. Zip files are a different > matter, there are a lot of reasons that a user would get a zip. That being You can also be really strict in this area if you have buy in from your users. If the folks in the trences understand the risks vs. rewards for passing executables via e-mail in the current environment they are generally quite willing to use ftp or http transfers for the exceptional cases. OTOH, if your users already have bad habits acquired in gentler times you have a tougher job ahead of you keeping ahead of them. -- Daniel Taylor random at argle.org Forget diamonds, Copyright is forever. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list