Re: Is Yahoo doing all it can to prevent the spread of viruses?

From: cquirke (MVP Win9x) (name.goes.here_at_nospam.iafrica.com)
Date: 10/11/03 

Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 16:49:14 +0200

On 10 Oct 2003 14:00:54 -0700, rgregoryclark@yahoo.com (Robert Clark)

> Among the free email providers there doesn't seem to be any that does
>automatic screening for viruses.

"Who will rid me of this turbulent spam?"

> I say there is time for there to be one.

I don't think they will, and here's why - maintaining such a facility
is an ongoing committment, whether they do it in-house (spam) or but
an off-the-peg solution from an av (malware) or whoever (spam).

If they were to buy av, you can bet it wouldn't be one copy of F-Prot
for DOS used "only for home use, honest!". The av would have in mind
the number of users and the value it would add to the ISP, and if the
ISP was silly enough not to recover the cost of that value, well,
that's not the av vendor's problem. Think about it; if you were a
wholesaler and one of your resellers wanted kit for free because he
wasn't charging his client, what would you say?

Protection against spam in particular is something identified (along
with pr0n) as one of the few things ppl will pay for.

Even Eudora 6 has got into that act - about the only big difference
between 6 and 5.xx that I can see is anti-spam filtering. For the
first time, there is a new feature present in Paid mode that is *not*
provided in Sponsored mode. Can anyone guess what that feature is?

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