The problem with the alarming system was that I had directed a post both to
the list and to an individual subscriber. That person's system alarmed, and
sent the alarm e-mail to all recipients of that message. I would guess that
the best way to reply to the list and to a subscriber would be to move the
list to the BCC field.
Of course, if a new script is written, another approach might be to instruct
the alert to not send mail to any address with the word "list" or "group" in
it. That might help, but it also might allow a loophole for, let's say, the
mail alias, "webmastergroup". Hmm..
Any ideas?
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Dustin Miller, President
WebFusionDevelopmentIncorporated
-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 1:23 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Oops, someone tried to send you a virus
Frank Tegtmeyer writes:
> > Yes, and it did the right thing in this case -- to send email to all
> > likely receipients of the email, since they got a virus that might
> > cause them a problem.
>
> Imagine that every receiver of the list had installed such a system.
Boom!
Hmmm... You're right, that behavior doesn't scale for mailing lists.
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