zoom fax/modem problem

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Tue, 6 Apr 1999 17:36:01 +0200


Hi,

On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 02:04:24PM -0000, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Gert Doering writes:
>  > You don't really mean this, do you?  You have just flooded a mailing list
>  > with at least 500 subscribers with an 1.4 Mb sized log file - causing
>  > about a *Gigabyte* IP traffic to the list host crynwr.com.
> Nahhh.  You forgot about my newbie/spam filter.

True.  Seems we have been lucky this time :-)

>  > Russell, can we add a maximum size filter?  Throw away everything that's
>  > over 2000 lines long and is sent to the list?  It's really not
>  > useful to have such huge mails on the list - nobody can read through
>  > 24,000 lines of log files anyway.
> Done.

Thanks.

gert
-- 
USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW!
                                                           //www.muc.de/~gert/
Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert@greenie.muc.de
fax: +49-89-35655025                        gert.doering@physik.tu-muenchen.de