Subject: HELP ! Address book size (fwd)

From: Joe Haskian <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 09:15:45 +1000 (AEST)

HELP .......!

Is there a way that the size of personal address
books can be adjusted on a global scale
(ie., in pine.conf.fixed) eg, number of recipients per address
book is fixed, or largest size is a few hundred bytes etc.?  

If this is not possible, is their at least a method whereby 
the "listmode L" option can be disabled (when building
a personal address book from a global address book)?

The problem is that the size of our global address
book is something of the order 5,000 entries, and
too many of our users go to listmode and then 
hit 'X' 'down-arrow' , 'X' 'down-arrow' ...... ad infinitum!
till they form humongous lists which cause havoc
to our mail delivery system.
Thanks
Joe 

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From: Michael Thomas Cope <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 16:33:39 -0700 (PDT)

> to our mail delivery system.
It sounds like what you really need is a user policy that prohibits this
combined with a policing practice to find those who do this.  This is
considered a mail-bomb on our site and we have a script (attached) that
reads the sendmail log and people on or off site that sent over 50
messages in an hour.
-Mike
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Michael Cope: Harvey Mudd College '00; Armand Hammer UWC '96
E-mail: [email-masked]