On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Phil Pennock wrote:
> > This would not happen if it is made clear that the sender is *not* a
> > human, Ie: a line like "as sincerely as software could be" will make
> > things very clear to the recepient that this is *not* a human..
>
> Muahahahaaaaaa ..... *rotfl*
Me too. The message Exim sends by default starts with the sentence:
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
When I wrote it, in my naivety, I thought that would be enough to stop
users thinking it came from a human (we had seen people thinking this on
the previous mailer). However, we get plenty of replies, some even
beginning "Dear Mailer-Daemon" or asking "Who are you really?". I have
thought of adding
NOTE: It was not written by a human. The Mailer Daemon is a program.
but I don't suspect it would make much difference.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
