ubuntu littered with malicious viruses, some oriented toward Linux

[Sean Miller]

Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:

>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...
>  
>
I have seen such things on lists, but very very rarely... I have a 
feeling that auto-replies tend to use the "from" address, whereas most 
"reply to list" lists use the "reply-to:" message header to tell the 
client what to do -- whichever, it doesn't seem to happen except in a 
very small minority of cases... and even then, I have not seen it go 
into the "downward spiral" that you fear... just one "fred is out of the 
office" to irritate folks.

Sean