The setting of NOMAIL will be dependent on whether the Reply-To is set to the List,Ignore or List or Sender.  I was strictly addressing protection of the list.  However, you point is well taken.  If the header's Reply-To parameter is not List,Ignore, then NOMAIL would be necessary to effect such.

Michael


At 06:15 PM 5/13/01 -0500, you wrote:
>> If you set a subscriber with an infected machine to NOMAIL, they can
>> still post to the list and spread the worm.  Setting them to NOPOST
>> will prevent an infected machine from distributing the virus to the
>> machines of other subscribers.
>
>Don is right and wrong .. as are you..
>
>the best thing to do is to either delete the subscriber OR set to both
>NOMAIL and NOPOST.. most of the times I've seen this virus being sent
>back to the sender of posts .. so NOPOST alone won't help except to keep
>it from going to the list address.
>
>Frankly, I deleted our infected subscriber until he wrote me and I knew he
>was disinfected and of course warned the list.
>
>  ...Cleo  [log in to unmask]
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