On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 9:51 AM Nicolas Dufresne <nico...@ndufresne.ca>
wrote:

> Le jeudi 30 novembre 2017 à 12:54 +0100, Alexandre Franke a écrit :
> > On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 6:43 AM,  <philip.chime...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Bastien, do you also mean to imply that the wish to be subscribed
> > > to >2000
> > > issues means that receiving >2000 mails won't be a problem?
> >
> > It will be a problem, but not as bad as losing subscription on those
> > issues. It would still be very much worth looking for a way to
> > temporarily disable notifications to avoid that flood. I can also
> > imagine that sending that many email out at once can raise some flags
> > and make GNOME look bad in the eye of some email providers.
>
> This was an issue when some project tried to migrate to Phabricator.
> The server end up stalled for days, spamming everyone. We need to be
> careful.
>

Carlos thought it would be possible to just stop all email while a
migration was running; it sounds like that's what we should plan to do.

Regards,
Philip C
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