From: Niall (niall at domain magicgoeshere.com)
Date: Fri 05 May 2000 - 11:01:01 IST
There've been a lot of words written about this here, and a lot of arguments
it how it's OT or not. Personally, although I laugh at the poor 'doze
lusers, I feel for those trying to clean it up. I manage one small mail
server, with mostly Mac. clients (does this thing affect Mac. outlook users
too, does anyone know ?) so it hasn't affected me. The one 'doze user in the
office is confined to a web interface to her email because of numerous past
experiences of receiving various garbage in attachments.
However, I'm curious here. The big issue is load on outgoing servers as this
thing delivers its load, n'est ce pas ? Does it send individual mails to
everyone in the address book, or one cc'ed to all addresses, or a
combination of both ? In either case, a possible solution is to rig the mail
host such that it will only send one email every X time per user, and it
will only send email to Y users in a cc/bcc list. Of course there are
legitimate reasons for people sending lots of email, or one to lots of
people. This could be handled by excluding certain users from the
restrictions, and 'encouraging' them to use mail clients other than lookout
(yeah, I know what it's really called, but lookout as in LOOKOUT! - 100000
outgoing emails seems more appropriate). I'm sure I've heard of something
along the timed lines before.
Regards,
Niall
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