On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 12:13:37PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: | On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 10:51:33 -0500 | "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > Actually, it's really easy to blackhole their messages on your end. | > From your POV it's basically the same thing (apart from bandwidth | > usage). | | Yes, blackholing the messages is easy. As for bandwidth being the only | difference, not quite. The messages still make it to the archives (thus | flooding them). The increased message traffic to the list can bog the | list server resulting in increasing delivery delays.
Err, yeah, of course. I mostly just view the list with mutt so I tend
to not notice some of that (though serious delays (ie 1+hours) are
rather noticeable).
| As with any problem the closer to the source you can deal with the
| problem the better.
Very true. OTOH some of use don't have any control near the source
and thus must resort to band-aids at the end. It is easy to blackhole
those messages, though it's not the Right solution.
-D
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