dingni wrote: > >>Why do you need an "exact" quota ? >I need a "exact" quota because my goal is to give our client a >choice of 100, 200, or 300 e-mails per day. If they are over quota >for that day, then they will have to wait till the next day to send >again.
But bear this in mind. For them to be able to burst the full quota out before throttling, they must have sent no messages the previous period. Eg, you set a quota of 100/day - if they used their quota up yesterday, they will not be able to send above the quota today - ie they will be rate limited to 100 during the course of today. Sell it as being rate limited rather than per calendar day. Most of your users will never notice the difference (they'll be sending less than the quota and sending them with a specific pattern during the day), and the few that do notice, you can explain to them. I'd be well happy if that was all I had to explain to our customers - most of them can't understand an email that says "Your message could not be delivered because of <reason>" and need it explaining to them. I had a new one though yesterday - had a customer come back to us to say they couldn't record their voicemail greeting. "It says to press the pound key, and the phone doesn't have a pound key" they said. Over here in the UK, what the US guys call "pound", we call "hash", and we have a totally difference currency symbol that we call "pound". -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.policyd.org/mailman/listinfo/users
