Re: Throttling outbound mail rates on a per-user basis

From: Dan Trainor (no email)
Date: Tue Nov 02 2004 - 06:49:33 EST


Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:

> * Cami <>:
>
>
>>Is there actually a demand for something like this?
>>(would it really be usefull?)
>
>
> Yes, I think it is.
> A rate limiting system that disallows a user to send more than
>
> (#mails * size) per timeunit
>
> would surely be interesting.
>

Ah ha, I got you guys thinking. how's it feel? ;)

But seriously. My investigations into this matter have yielded almost
nothing. I believe that this type of throttling/rate limiting/whatever
is done on a regular basis, but I'd like to find out more about it,
where and how it is used, and how I might start doing this.

I'm also trying to think of ways that ISPs prevent their users from
"accidentally" getting the ISPs on RBLs. Do they use a throttling
method such as what we've talked about? Content checks? Monkeys
reading messages one by one? Any feedback into that one would be
greatly appreciated, as well.

Thanks
-dant








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