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RE: once more unto the breech - still hanging, but I have a little more info.
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'Cygwin List'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 17:55:37 -0000
- Subject: RE: once more unto the breech - still hanging, but I have a little more info.
On 09 February 2006 17:48, John W. Eaton wrote:
>>> You just dumped 5 meg of useless spam into the inboxes of several
>>> thousand people. You just ate up dozens of gigabytes of
>>> sourceware.org's bandwidth, which are a scarce resource, paid for
>>> out of hard-earned donations and sponsorship.
>
> Sorry to waste additional bandwith with this potentially obvious
> question, but if this is a big problem, then why not place limits on
> the size of posts going to the list?
>
> jwe
Well, if you're asking me, it's because I don't have any administrative
privs over sourceware.org!
But I do think it would be a good idea. In fact, I'm fairly sure that there
used to be just such a limit, and overly-large strace or cygcheck output used
to trip it. I don't know when or why it might have been lifted.
BTW respect is due to Peter for saying sorry so nicely!
cheers,
DaveK
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