if you let them get used to it they won't ever change.
$.02
Matt wrote:
Rod,
I wasn't quite joking, though I don't have a need to do this at the
present. If my servers were ever overburdened and I was seeking to
steal back some threads, I might move forward on this. It's my opinion
that I should strive to make E-mail as clean, reliable and real-time as
possible, and limiting people to no more than once every 5 minutes
would defeat that. Instead of enforcing this, I would rather just
simply communicate best practices and suggest that once every 5 minutes
is optimal. If I were a phone company, I wouldn't tell my subscribers
to not make phone calls more than once a minute, so as long as my
servers can keep up without issue, I'll allow the power users to do
this when they want to. Personally, I have my accounts set to once a
minute, and I find that to be useful for my needs. I may change my
tune entirely if I was to ever experience issues.
Matt
Rod Dorman wrote:
On Tuesday, February 21, 2006, 18:02:55, Matt wrote:
Write a log analyzer app and send them a message every time they check
less than your required minimum :)
You might have been joking but that's exactly what I do. I've forgotten
who I stole the original from but heres the canned text that I send 'em.
Sorry to pester you but in our logs I see that you logon to check your
e-mail more frequently than every five minutes which generates hundreds
of extra log file lines each day and makes it harder to read the logs
when we are trying to research a problem.
Logging in so often also causes the server to work a little harder than
it needs to degrading service for everyone else on the server. If
everyone did it, it would be pretty noticeable.
Even assuming you got an e-mail every minute you wouldn't have time to
read it and respond before the next check would be downloading more. It
would make our work easier and the server run much more efficiently if
you would please logon every 5 minutes at a minimum and 10 or more would
be way better yet.
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