Hi Ewan/All
I agree that a limit may be unhelpful at times. Yesterday was the first
time that we hit a limit of 50. I suspect the purpose is to contain the
impact of spam. Since we naturally hit the limit I think this is a
reason to increase it - but did want to check in case people are annoyed
by lots of small mails from the list.
It is also possible to set per sender limits (probably again a spam
limitation device) but this is not currently set. Do we feel anyone says
too much :-) There are also configurable limits on the size of
messages and again these are not set.
For information we have 96 subscribers on this list (several people have
more than one address linked - they must like the list!). Of these 86
are UK based; 1 France; 3 Germany; 3 Ireland; 1 Switzerland and 3 US.
Jeremy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ewan MacMahon
> Sent: 08 November 2007 01:57
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Mail list limits
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
> >
> > As a consequence of the amount of email traffic generated in
> > exchanges on Wednesday, the mail server froze messages from
> > early evening.
>
> FWIW I think this is still a very low traffic list, and the idea that
> our main means of communication would disable itself exactly when
we're
> feeling the need of it most strikes me as spectacularly unhelpful.
Does
> it need a posting rate limit at all?
>
> Ewan
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