On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Mark wrote:

> As has been pointed out, UID's are cached. What one COULD do, for a client
> who connects too soon after his last check, is to simply reply that he has
> no new mail.

Or drop a special bulletin in his inbox saying he's checkibng mail too often.

Given the flagrant behaviour of some packages regarding failure to
report actual error messages(*), this may be the only way out.

I have tried to contact a user popping excessively on several occasions.
The usual response is "yeah yeah" and then no change in behaviour.


(*) Eudora for Macintosh's "That Pesky TCP is acting up again" is less
than helpful, as a for-instance.

AB



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