Total traffic seems to have been 3 messages in May and 9 messages in December, so it would be a quick job to review.
The list's still available to continue the discussion..... --On 25. januar 2006 12:26 -0800 Michael Thomas <mat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It seems to me that a lot of what causes working group lists to melt down is simply the volume of traffic -- usually with plenty of off-topic banter, or exchanges of dubious value, with the resulting conjestive collapse of our wetware buffering. On good days, the drop algorithm may be more sophisticated than tail drops; on bad days... Perhaps we should take a lesson from TCP and set a receive window on IETF mailing lists in the face of conjestion. The sender is thus obligated to keep the transmission within the window, and as a side effect to consider the quality of the, um, quantity. Just this simple step would greatly limit (purposeful) DOS attacks and other death spirals. It also mitigates the "free speech" attacks by not throttling based on content (which is inherently contentious), but based on wg mailing list "bandwidth". in all modesty, Mike _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
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