In the past three minutes, my inbox suddenly filled with a flood of 87
newbie list messages.
There are two problems here.
1. The list got "blocked" or some pipeline "clogged".
2. When it unclogged, the system dumped all the e-mail in one big wad instead
of splitting it up and spoon-feeding it. My ISP must'e suddenly received at
least one multimegabyte data transfer, or perhaps (worse) a sudden burst of
87 sendmail connections. This could have seriously interrupted the mail
service on a smaller ISP. And it might have raised some sysadmin's eyebrows
at mine. Especially after the Yahoo DoS attack recently.
Suggestion to list admins:
1. Try to make sure the list doesn't get "blocked". Ever.
2. If this is inevitable even if it can be made quite rare, please have the
resulting backlogs sent in batches of a certain maximum size. Say 20
messages at a time.
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_____________________ ____|________ Paul Derbyshire
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