Chris Siebenmann on Nostr: Today's learning experience: if you have a per-host email rate limit of one email per ...
Today's learning experience: if you have a per-host email rate limit of one email per minute over some length of time (say 60 in 60 minutes), you might not want to do that; instead, you probably want it a bit bigger than one a minute. Consider: something has a crontab entry that spits out a message every time it runs, and it runs once a minute, and then something else on the machine sends an email. Boom: over the ratelimit, and it's probably not coming down for a while.
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