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. -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grondar.za for PGP key
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