Re: wanted: web-based plain-text email checker

[John R Levine]

> > just one Perl process per inbound mail.
>
>    With bunches of inbound mail, there are bunches of perl processes, QED.

Yes indeed.  I have lots of lists, the perl processes are imperceptible
because on a list of any size, delivery time dominates.

>    I could, but then as people figured out that they didn't have to post
> text, and that I would do the work for them, they would rely on it, and I
> would end up inevitably invoking it for every message, anyway. Hardly
> sensible if mny goal is not to invoke perl at all, eh?

Ah, there's the problem.  My goal is to deliver the mail with minimal
hassle to both list users and to me.  No wonder people disagree with you.

Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
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