This feature has not been added yet but I've submitted some code to the bukkit team with such a feature. Hopefully they'll accept and incorporate...
This is a bug in the current revision. I'm pretty sure the team knows about it, so it should be fixed soon.
I coded this up when I was doing my own custom mods to SMP and I thought I might as well contribute something to this here fine-looking community....
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