[Mailman-Developers] VERPing: ouch!

[Somuchfun]

The problem is you cannot disable the VERP bounce probe (ping) even if you
disable VERP in the mm_cfg.py

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MANA TANGATA 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fil [mailto:fil at rezo.net] 
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 2:15 PM
> To: Mailman Developers
> Subject: [Mailman-Developers] VERPing: ouch!
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think there's a small design flaw with the once-in-a-wile 
> VERPing scheme.
> My biggest list is 180k subscribers, and I've set up Mailman 
> to VERP once
> every 10th message. Well, it happened today that the big list 
> was hit by its
> VERP time, and it's a bit awful - it looks like the list has 
> taken control
> of Mailman, and no other mail can pass through it.
> 
> I think it might be wiser to say "every 10th recipient" is 
> VERPed at each
> sending, than what we have now. Of course, it needs rotating 
> things, or
> randomizing them, so it's not a two-lines of code I guess.
> 
> Meanwhile I'll just have to disable VERP for this list (or 
> for the whole
> server).
> 
> -- Fil
> 
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