Hi, On 7/20/06, Ian Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And honestly, people who want to filter these messages out can do so, > whether they are on their own list or on this one. It's quite easy to > create rules for them, including temporary filters like to handle > today's unusual amount of messages. That is the wrong answer:-) You are ignoring the anti-community effects of all that trash being sent over the internet - probably several gigabytes of traffic wasted in one day - as well as the costs to people who pay for bandwidth - filtering it is too late! 2400 messages at 2294 bytes * 500 subscribers is about 2.5GB of totally garbage network traffic sent out by the Apache mail server over a few hours (I don't know how many subscribers there are, that was just a guess). And that 2294 is a bit high as it includes the Received: lines that are added by sendmail, but still, it's a measurable amount of wasted bandwidth.
Yes, no one says it was good or effective or efficienct. All I was saying is that it's a one-time thing, hopefully, so to change the infrastructure because of it seems unwarranted. If someone really has an itch to scratch here, go enhance SVN to lock entire trees in one atomic operation ;) Yoav --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
