Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!jbaltz From: jbaltz@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Jerry B. Altzman) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: CompuServe backlog; mail servers Message-ID: <1990Dec20.213025.3943@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 20 Dec 90 21:30:25 GMT References: <1990Dec13.235726.563@jpradley.jpr.com> Organization: mailer daemons association Lines: 18 In article karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu writes: > [b] Brian Kantor & Co are working on a mail server which > will respond only if there is an IP addr for the origin; > or the address is local-to-UCSD-uucp-host!user; or the > address is uunet!one-machine-hop!user. Perhaps the way to do this right is the way LISTSERV does it. Although not infallible, an MBAS may keep a log file for a user, and not permit him/her from ordering more than XXXK/day, which could certainly slow it down a bit. DISCLAIMER: This isn't Columbia. This is me. Columbia is them. >--karl //jbaltz -- jerry b. altzman "I didn't do it, and when I did I wasn't" 212 854 8058 jbaltz@columbia.edu "there, and you deserved it." jauus@cuvmb (bitnet) NEVIS::jbaltz (HEPNET) ...!rutgers!columbia!jbaltz (bang!)