[ mailman-Feature Requests-820728 ] limit postings by count

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Feature Requests item #820728, was opened at 2003-10-09 12:37
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jim Jewett (jimjjewett)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: limit postings by count

Initial Comment:
Place a limit on the number of postings/day before the list 
becomes temporarily moderated.  (mlist.emergency gets 
set and EmergencyHold added to the processors.)

Ideally, there would also be a separate per-poster limit 
before the individual became temporarily moderated.

Reason:  If one (or even several) individuals sets up a 
bad .vacation responder or succumbs to a virus, the list 
may soon be swamped with junk traffic.  Better to shut it 
down than to swamp all readers.

(Why yes, I am on a pair of lists sending out new digests 
every 5 minutes because of a .vacation loop problem.  In 
this case, it would be enough to stop posts from this 
individual, but I realize that may not always be the case.)



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