[Gllug] OSS Spam filtering, virus scanning email solutions

[Chris Bell]

On Wed 03 Jan, John G Walker wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:21:43 +0000 (GMT) Chris Bell
> <chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed 03 Jan, Matthew Thompson wrote:
> > > 
> > > John G Walker wrote:
> > > > I don't see this approach working for your journalists. The
> > > > problem is one of your own making. If you let other people decide
> > > > what you can or can't receive then IMHO you're asking for trouble
> > > > (which you seem to have got).
> > > > 
> > 
> >    If you are a journalist, and have been sent to somewhere just past
> > the back of beyond and need to get a story back, to arrive ten
> > minutes ago, I suppose you are expected to travel to somewhere with
> > better communications before the roof caves in.
> > 
> > 
> 
> I can't, for the life of me, see what these two comments have to do with
> one another. Flame bait, perhaps?
> 
   Are you really unable to appreciate that the journalists may not have any
other option than to send mail from wherever they are working? It may not be
a known address, just the best under the circumstances. I have not been a
news reporter, but I have worked as member of a team getting short notice
live programmes, and I have been to places in this country where we have
needed to beg facilities from anyone nearby to get the programmes back on
time. We had fly-away kit for people sent out to the other side of the
world, but even that could not always be relied on, depending on the terrain
or location.

-- 
Chris Bell

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