On 26 Oct 2015, at 11:26, Rich Kulawiec via Outages wrote:
As an aside, a couple of years ago I argued that Mailman should have a feature added that measured the normal rate of message flow (per hour, per day, perhaps per week) and provided a setting which would engage the moderation flag if that rate was exceeded by a (configurable) multiplier. E.g., "if normal for this list is 20 messages a day and and the multiplier is set to 3, then once the message count hits 60 in a 24-hour period, hold all subsequent messages for manual approval". This is one of the use cases that I had in mind for it.
I like that idea, but I wonder whether it has unpleasant implications for operations lists. If something horrible happens in a global context, it's not unusual for somewhat quiet ops lists to explode with content. That's kind of what those lists are for. It'd be unfortunate if the one time you really wanted the list to work in anger, it automatically throttled itself. Joe