On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 12:33:20AM -0400, John R Levine wrote:
> 
> My thought would
> be to keep some estimate of server load based on the time from the connection
> attempt to the banner, or maybe the response to the HELO, and throttle
> connections to a host when it got significantly slower than it used to be. 

Wouldn't an approach like this be vulnerable to a whole host of noise effects
like varying net latency, or host slowdowns that don't have anything to do
with actual mail load?

-m

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Michael Jinks, IB
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