Public thanks to Tim Pierce for his analysis of how the newapt worm switches
From: and To: headers around.

I sent every list member an announcement, with some headers designed to make
it look like a mailing list distribution to most of their filters (for those
who filter at all), but the To:, From:, and Reply-To: headers and the enve-
lope sender address were all suffixed with the recipient's address, VERP-
style.

One sent the worm back in reaction, and her own address was all over it.  I
deactivated her subscription and sent her a message asking her to clean her
system and get back to me.  (Of course, tomorrow I'll have another copy of
the worm in response to that.)

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