On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Evan Champion wrote:
> A subject match may be useful, but I think a better way would be to have
> a database of e-mail address vs. # of messages received in a 24 hour
> period. In terms of majordomo itself, I would like it see it send a
> maximum of 2 help messages every 24 hours, and then silently ignore any
> further messages that do not contain valid commands. I don't know if
> you'd want to use that sort of a scheme to protect a mailing list, but if
> so it could be useful on the order of, say, 10 or 20 posts per day from
> the same individual.
I suggested something of the sort, just not on a per user level, rather
per list level. Regardless, Jason said that the overhead would be too
great and that people (who?) are already complaining about that.
> I don't think any of these techniques alone are going to solve the
> problem, but most are very easy to implement so why not do all we can.
> If you make it configurable, the user can decide to turn off the more
> aggressive measures.
The message-id one probably wouldn't add too much overhead and might solve
somebody's problems. I also can't imagine anybody objecting to it(except
for overhead).
I personally wouldn't use it, and have never experienced those problems.
As such, I'd rather the effort be spent elsewhere, on some other feature
that would have a more wide-range use.
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