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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin
Subject: Re: How can I remain calm?
Summary: I dunno, but reading the net probably isn't the answer
Message-ID: <21038@gryphon.COM>
Date: 17 Oct 89 22:37:49 GMT
References: <547@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> <1989Oct17.045700.11226@acheron.uucp>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <1989Oct17.045700.11226@acheron.uucp> clarke@acheron.uucp (Ed Clarke/10240000) writes:
>From article <547@ncis.tis.llnl.gov>, by mcb@ncis.tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch):
>> [Re: what happens when you send out a global sendsys...]
>> 	8,000 * 2048 = 16,384,000 ~= 16.4 MB
>> You would hope that wouldn't blow too many mail spool disks, but perhaps
>> so.  The real squeeze, the one I forgot since we do not run UUCP
>
>Last year (December) I sent out a 'sendsys' with a NY distribution.
>Somehow it multiplied so that rochester.edu got 22 requests from me
>within a span of ten hours ... I still haven't figured out how it
>happened and have no intention of trying it again.

Perhaps there ought to be a limit in the software viz. how many
times per day (hour?) it will respond to a sendsys.

100 sendsys requests per hour could get pretty annoying.

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