Auto-responding virus

[Julian Field]

At 18:07 17/01/2002, you wrote:
>Now I'm guessing that these auto-responding viruses aren't too clever, so my
>suggestion is that a configuration option is offered to allow the setting of
>a reply-to address on the various warning messages.  Then we can set the
>from
>to be a nice /dev/null account like "nobody" and set the reply-to to be
>something a human being will read.  We can even include text in the messages
>telling any real human out there that they should reply to the reply-to
>address rather than the from address.

This will work until the next virus comes along which looks for a
"Reply-To" address :-(
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
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