Re: Screening Outgoing Mail for Content

["Joseph S. D. Yao" <jsdy () cospo osis gov>]

> On the other hand, if you are paranoid/determined enough, you might just
> block whatever you cannot screen.  So, binary attachments are out, just
> as uuencoded files etc.  If you're not sure it's safe to go, it does not
> go.  Might still not be a 100% safe without hand screening, though.

As someone else pointed out, the users of this network will view this
as a hostile action, and work around you rather than with you.  The age
of attachments is, I'm afraid, upon us.

And hand screening won't find everything, either.  An encrypted message
can look like a perfectly innocent anything.

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Joe Yao                         jsdy () cospo osis gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
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