[LAD] [LAU] limiting email traffic

[Robin Gareus]

On 10/31/2013 05:32 PM, Fred Gleason wrote:
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> Might we want to consider modifying this rule so as to apply to a
> dozen messages *in a given thread* per day?  I agree that, if one is
> doing that much shouting about a single topic, it'd probably be
> better to give it a rest.  :)

That was the initial intention. However it's much harder to do. The
current implementation is a few lines of bash. it does not look at the
content at all, just address and mail-headers as logged by the MTA.
Basically inotifywait mail.log; cut, sort, uniq, wc, test

You're welcome to provide a tool to do a better job. It's probably not
too hard in perl or python, but I did not consider it worth my time.

Before you get down to implement it however, consider volunteering as
list-moderator. I hazard a guess that it is effectively more efficient
to do things manually when it comes to more complex rules.

If interested please contact linux-audio-user-owner at lists.linuxaudio.org
(which is not me).

robin