HJNCU%CUNYVM.BITNET@wiscvm.ARPA (Henry Nussbacher) (02/21/86)
This may not be the best method but it works for me today and for Annette Deschon who manages the gateways that respond to mail for Telemai/Mcimail/ Dialcom. We scan the From: line for one of the following character strings: MAILER SMTPUSER DAEMON DATABASE POSTMAN POSTMAST MMDF SUBSYSTEM If the From field contains one of these character strings the mail is placed in a holding area and is not processed until there is some human intervention. I would prefer to see a special RFC header that indicates that the mail being received was created by a program and not by a human but I guess that will never happen. In the meantime, this works for Database@Bitnic.Bitnet and has stopped countless loops between networks and within Bitnet. Hank