Outlook does not do this for either address book or contacts and this behavior can be turned off in Outlook Express. BTW, OE only stores the addresses of people you reply to and it uses the "reply-to" rather than the "from" header. If you reply back to the list the "To:" address will appear as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any virus will then be stripped.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Michael Milette > Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 3:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Off topic, virus activity > > > I am not saying that the virus would spread via the listserv. > I realize > attachments are removed by the listserv and I am assuming > that vbScript and > most HTML is hopefully stripped out too. > > However, I am saying that the email distribution lists in > outlook can be > populated by email messages delivered from a listserv. > > Each of us received a countless number of messages each day > from this and > possibly other listservs. If you are using any version of > Microsoft Outlook > or Outlook express, each time you receive an email message, > the addresses > in the "from" field of the email header are automatically > added to your > outlook address book. In the future, should your PC ever > become infected > with one of those email viruses that spread using your > outlook address > book, the virus would then be sent out to anyone from whom > you have ever > received an email message including those who have > contributed to vnc-list. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
