On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Steve Hicks wrote:
> I have a mailing list that contains about a 1000 people. Becuase of the
> popular subject matter, it can get quite lively with many people posting
> articles of interest. Problem is, some days you get a couple of postings,
> other you might get 30 and people don't always take too kindly to this.
I dont think that there is anything you can do on the mail server. If you
time the outgoing mail to only deliver 10 per day it might well happen
that your spool will never decrease. And if you really plan to deliver all
mails the total traffic wont decrease either.
IMHO the right solution would be on the user site, i.e. I installed a
small news server to handle high traffic mailinglists so you can use
scoring and threading news reader. In your case it would probably be
enough to use the filter facility exim provides or if exim isnt available
tell the people to install procmail so all the mailing list related mail
can be saved in a seperate folder.
Greetings
Niels =8)
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