On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 10:27:08AM -0600, Kris Kelley wrote:
> > If you want to have fun with Outlook Express users, put this in your
> > signature:
> >
> > "[EMAIL PROTECTED] Doe"@example.com
> >
> > I don't know if that's a legal address, but its mere presence in an e-mail
> > message will cause Outlook Express to freeze and eventually consume all of
> > your memory...
> 
> "Thanks for the warning," says the person who read this message with Outlook
> Express.  Incidentally, nothing happened, aside from the address being
> incorrectly parsed by OE's mailto linker.  I use version 5.

It was version 5.5 that that address killed. Perhaps it's a new feature that
Microsoft decided to introduce.

Chris

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