Hello Tony!

12 Aug 96, Tony Langdon writes to Lowell Adams:

 LA>> Is there any program that you can use to censor the netmail
 LA>> messages before they get to the gateway software? Maybe some way
 LA>> to delete messages that contain the word 'subscribe'?

 TL> What gateway s/w do you run?  For GIGO, the BLOCKADDRESS facility will
 TL> allow you to bounce netmail addresses to common mailing list names
 TL> (e.g. LISTSERV@, BITNET@, majordomo@, etc).  I use this facility.  If
 TL> your gateway doesn't have this capability, NetMgr can be used to
 TL> perform the same function.  Of course, it doesn't handle 'oddball'
 TL> addresses, but catches most of them...

    Netmgr will catch all of them. I know of no 'oddball' address that it won't
catch. The key words that I look for are 'subscribe', 'logon' and 'join'.

 TL> However, I don't know of anything to bounce messages with specific
 TL> words in them.

    Netmgr will happly do that with the registered version. It is a XMASK:

; for twits that are sending mail to listservers
Mask *, *, UUCP, 1:105/306.999, ~subscribe, *
Mask *, *, ~@, 1:105/306.999, ~subscribe, *
Xmask
bodylines 20
Body 'subscribe' OR 'LISTSERV' OR 'MAJORDOMO' OR 'OWNER'
to UUCP OR ~@
dest 1:105/306.999 OR 1:105/306.0
end
Action file e:\logs1\lbounce.log
Action Bounce 1:105/306.0 e:\bink\maillist.txt
Action delete

 TL> "I thought I might subscribe to Reader's Digest, it has a lot of
 TL> interesting articles..."
 TL> Users would get rather annoyed, if this was bounced because a gateway
 TL> thought it was a mailing list subscription!!! :)

    Over the last year, only one user had a message bounce because of the
'subscribe' in her message text. Not bad as there are about 20K messages going
through here every day.

Mark - Sysop/Sysadmin GATE306/Crystals.aloha.or.us