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] > >