Re: disallow freemail

From: Henry Brown (hbrown_at_knology.net)
Date: 02/26/04

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    Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 15:01:58 -0600
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    Haji:
       And every other vulnerability that email poses to the corporate
    network but alas I see you use one of freemail services so guess what
    you are saying do as I say not as I do... Probably does not "wash" too
    good in today's environment.

    VR
    Henry

    haji din wrote:

    >hi list,
    >
    >anybody blocking or having a security policy that
    >disallow users from using freemail (yahoo, hotmail,
    >etc)?
    >
    >what are security threat that freemail poses to
    >corporate network?
    >
    >One threat is that users will be able to download
    >malicious files, bypassing security measure at a mail
    >gateway. Any more ideas?
    >
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