Jim Popovitch writes: > What if Mailman had a thread-throttling feature where after a preset > number of posts, further posts (with same msgid or Subject, etc.) would > automatically induce a queuing delay.
I think this would just lead to people mail-bombing the admins instead of the list. :-) The other issue I can think of is that when I think back on the cases where in hindsight I really wish I'd had a 15 minute delay on the SEND key mostly occurred on lists with a substantial management component. It would be really nasty if a feature intended to keep hotheads like me from embarrassing themselves instead suddenly slowed a discussion of how to deal with an ongoing DDOS attack or the like. Now, if you were proposing a feature where Mailman would notice that I've posted to a thread 3 times in fifteen minutes and mail me a polite notice "are you really sure you need to post to this thread three times in fifteen minutes?!", *that* I could really go for! It wouldn't even have to work for other people.<wink> Or to paraphrase an old George Carlin schtick, "Stop me before I [post] again!" ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
