ubuntu littered with malicious viruses, some oriented toward Linux

Dennis Kaarsemaker dennis at kaarsemaker.net
Wed Dec 15 06:34:09 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 06:27 +0000, Sean Miller wrote:

> I have yet to see a convincing argument for having a mailing 
> list/discussion group that uses "reply to sender" rather than "reply
> to 
> list"... by far the majority of people mailing are surely likely to
> want 
> to send their replies to everyone, and those who wish to reply
> privately 
> only have to alter the "to:"

How about that foo^H^H^H a little ignorant person that subscribed to the
list using an address that sent an autoreply to the sender. Those
messages would in case of a reply-to-list be sent to the list which
would again cause such an autoreply and so on...

Simple vacation messages would do this trick too...
-- 
Dennis K.
  And that's the way the cookie crumbles!





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