>>From: Eric Thomas <ERIC@FRECP11> >>I am afraid I will have to put a limit on the number of files a given >>user may order a day in the next release of LISTSERV. This may cause >>problems with servers or NADs who order files from LISTSERV to store >>them on public disks, but something has to be done to prevent this >>kind of things. >From: Ross Patterson <A024012@RUTVM1> > I hope you intend to make this limit installation-controllable. >At the very least, I'd like a MaximumFilesPerDay SYSVARS variable. >But it would be even better if there was an exit (LSV$MFPD?) to let >the installation decide on a case-by-case basis. Some of us use >LISTSERV for local/campus/ regional fileservers, and would need this >kind of control over the limit. I would also like to see it implemented in such a way that it can be controlled by the local postmaster. Ross' idea of a user exit seems to be a good way to go, and a default version could be distributed with LISTSERV. Perhaps the default exit could check for NAD's and LISTSERVs and impose a different limit on them than on the normal "Joe" user. Harold