On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 01:33:01PM -0400, Soren Andersen wrote: > I have a little story to tell. There's a f**king cavalier attitude I've > detected from some on Debian-User regarding the sheer traffic (number of > incoming messages hitting a mailserver box) that this List generates. > I've got something for people to think about: I've just had to > re-subscribe today to Debian-User (and debian-cd, and debian-perl, and > ... you get the picture) for the third time in three months because my > ISP (Adelphia.net) has a 500-message inbox limit by default (MAYBE but > not surely I might have managed to undo that today, we'll see). The > traffic generated by Debian-User alone is enough to overrun this limit > (and I know it's a moronic limit and I know it's Adelphia's fault, and > save your freaking breath, no I AM NOT going to "get a 'real' ISP") in a > couple of days. When that happens, messages start bouncing, and when > they bounce back on Debian-*, the subscription gets cancelled > (hair-trigger there, hey Admin, please give a fellow a BREAK?!). I'd say "subscribe to the digest", except it's been dysfunctional since the end of March despite several mails to the listmaster... -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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