On Wed, 16 May 2001 09:43:02 PDT, John Morrison <[log in to unmask]>  said:
> We must have the ability to subscribe someone to more than 50 lists in an hour. They should also need to confirm their request,
> incase our utility was used for a malicious intent. I do understand being inundated with 50+ confirmation requests is malicious
> itself.

You must have it, or you just *think* you must have it?

Now tell me - are these lists *SO* high traffic that if you subscribe the
user to 25 lists now, and then wait an hour and subscribe him to the next
25 lists, that he will miss *THAT* much traffic from the second set of 25?

Consider that if the user had decided to subscribe an hour later, he would
have missed that mail *anyhow*.  And they've already missed all the OTHER
postings to the list so far that day.. and yesterday's postings.. and....

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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech