From: Pete Resnick <presnick(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com>
For those who don't know procmail, here is a sample config for just
the IETF-announce list. I think this is what Harald is talking
about.
Actually, no, this wasn't what Harald was talking about. I *could*
run procmail if I really wanted all of that traffic to come to my
machine. But I don't. It's actually putting the load on my local
network and machine that I consider the problem. ...
Please help me understand. Perhaps 1000 mail messages per year, each
containing about 6 KBytes, is a significant extra load for Mr. Resnick's
local network and machine. Since 6 MByte in a year is equivalent to
at most about 150 HTTP pages in a year, Mr. Resnick's network and
machine must not be used for "web surfing." Is that true?
Vernon Schryver vjs(_at_)rhyolite(_dot_)com