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Re: CompuServe backlog; mail servers

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From: Jerry B. Altzman
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 1990 21:30
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In article <KARL.90Dec17233700@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu> karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu writes:
>	[b] Brian Kantor & Co are working on a mail server which
>	    will respond only if there is an IP addr for the origin;
>	    or the address is local-to-UCSD-uucp-host!user; or the
>	    address is uunet!one-machine-hop!user.

Perhaps the way to do this right is the way LISTSERV does it. Although not
infallible, an MBAS may keep a log file for a user, and not permit him/her
from ordering more than XXXK/day, which could certainly slow it down a bit.

DISCLAIMER: This isn't Columbia. This is me. Columbia is them.

>--karl
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References: <1990Dec13.235726.563@jpradley.jpr.com> <KARL.90Dec17233700@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu>

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From: jbaltz@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Jerry B. Altzman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: CompuServe backlog; mail servers
Message-ID: <1990Dec20.213025.3943@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 20 Dec 90 21:30:25 GMT
References: <1990Dec13.235726.563@jpradley.jpr.com> <KARL.90Dec17233700@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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