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Re: [Asrg] Willfull and intentional misunderstandings

2003-05-10 21:22:17

From: Mike Rubel <asrg(_at_)mikerubel(_dot_)org>

> But lets say that the slave computer in question belongs to a customer
> who is permitted to send large amounts of emails (like www.ietf.org). In
> that case limiters will not help either since the user is authorized to
> send large amounts of emails. However, I would tend to think that this
> would be an uncommon case.
[ ... ]
> Additionally, limiting user's email might draw some negative feedback from
> the users.

Hmm, perhaps "rate limiter" was too strong a word.  I only meant that RMX
gives admins the ability to deploy a safety valve, when and where they
want to.  As a user, I would appreciate such a thing, just as I appreciate
it when my credit card company double-checks before approving an
unusually-large purchase.  Nobody's proposing that we start imposing some
arbitrary limits on people's ability to send legitimate email.

How would such safety valve work? The admin contacts the user, or looks a the outbound SMTP traffic?
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