However, for what it's worth, the virus blocking will affect Pilot accounts
as well as mail.msu.edu accounts. The announcement sent to deans,
directors, etc. glosses over this fact, making it sound as though the virus
blocking only affects those who have converted.
At 09:59 AM 12/9/2003, George J. Perkins wrote:
>The loophole was that the soon-to-be-announced-at-that-time upgrade to
>mail.msu.edu was considered as setting up a new system, so a user making
>the switchover could look at the fine print (somewhere) and see that the
>possibility for anti-virus scanning was part of the system and, by
>continuing to make the switchover, implicitly opt in to that behavior
>(whether it was actually activated at the time or not).
>
>So, as long as the mail.msu.edu upgrade procedure or documentation mention
>anti-virus scanning somewhere, it's probably not an issue (at least not a
>major one).
--Chris
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