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Date:      Thu, 20 Jun 1996 08:01:30 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Cc:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>, FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: When gcc-2.7.2 hits ctm 
Message-ID:  <199606200601.IAA04760@grumble.grondar.za>

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Wolfram Schneider wrote:
> 
> I completely agree! The mailbombs cost me real money. If FreeBSD
> continued sending mailbombs I will unsubscribe ctm-cvs.

Do not worry. I cannot remember the exact numbers, but when a CTM
delta larger than a certain size gets made, it is not mailed. Instead
the owners are mailed with a request to get the file by other means.

[I just looked at the example in -current - any delta bigger than
3Meg will not get mailed.]

M

> 
> Wolfram
> 
> Chuck Robey writes:
> >Twice recently I have had ctm mailbomb me with big updates, and I guess 
> >everyone else who uses ctm has had that happen too.  My mail capacity was 
> >big engough to manage, but I'm just a little worried about the near 
> >future.  If some care isn't taken, when the new gcc gets imported into 
> >current, well, gcc is big enough to overflow probably everyone's mailbox, 
> >no matter what size each individual ctm update is limited to.
> >
> >I just hope that ctm is taken into account, when gcc is brought up to 
> >2.7.2, else there's gonna me one enormous mail snafu.  There's several 
> >different ways to handle this, I don't care how it's finally decided, I 
> >just don't want ctm trying to send me 25 megabytes of mail all in one day.
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Mark Murray
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