Eric Thomas <ERIC@FRECP11>
Sun, 7 Feb 88 18:50:00 SET
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I realize that I have omitted an important point in my presentation of the
network-wide 'List-ID' feature. By default, all lists are considered to be
network-wide lists whose addresses ought to be communicated to other servers.
Only confidential lists are "kept secret".
You probably have a lot of local lists on your server which are of no interest
to the network. For example, you might have a list of the people in the
systems group, a list of all the teachers of this or that department, etc. You
probably didn't consider these lists as being "confidential", and thus you
didn't flag them as such. However, this means that they will be entered into
GLOBLIST FILE and that people from everywhere in the world will try to signup
to them. This will increase the size of the LIST GLOBAL command output and
also the disk space required by GLOBLIST FILE. Thus you should change these
lists to:
Confidential= Service Service= Local
This will have the side effect of not preventing them from showing up on the
output of a "LIST" command if the sender is not in the service area. That is,
your local users will not be affected, but remote users will not "see" the
list and will consequently not try to subscribe to it. This change should be
made before you install 1.5n, ie NOW :-)
A new keyword will be introduced in release 1.5n: "Daily-Threshold", which
will default to 50. It indicates the maximum number of acceptable mailings a
day for the list; if more than this amount is received in any given day, the
list will be placed in hold status and the owner will be notified. The
"counter" will then be reset so that a "FREE" command will release the list
and let in up to Daily-Threshold additional mailings. The list will remain
held until manually released (ie it won't be reset at midnight). This should
prevent loops from going on forever. If you are not satisfied with the default
value, you should be sure to change it before installing release 1.5n.
I have other new features to announce but I'll make it a different note to
make database searches on the subject easier.
Eric
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