Re: RFC mailbox interface

["M . Thielker" <balsa t-data com>]

Hi,

On 2001.11.26 01:43 James McPherson - TSG Engineer wrote:
> And rightly so! Melanie, have you ever done read benchmarking? How big is
> the
> largest network environment you have worked in on a day to day basis? How
> would

Well, rather large, actually. It connects 8 sites from London to Madrid, 
through connections of varying bandwidth, ranging from 64K single ISDN to 
2MBit(E1).

> your dynamic runtime updates handle somebody maxing out the link through
> your
> major mailserver in order to download a powerpoint presentation of 22 Mb?
> I've
> known people who do that, totally killed (ie, mega-bad filesystem
> corruption)
> the corporate mailserver, and who don't actually care about how much
> bandwidth
> they chew up. Have you?
> 

Well, I was thinking in much simpler terms. Maybe I used the wrong words, 
especially "realtime" got some people's hair up on end....
All I was thinking about was to time each entire messare read, divide by 
the bytes and save that, than adjust later, like 
new_average_speed=previous_average_speed/4+new_average_speed*3/4 - that 
simple!

> Sorry to be such a wet blanket, but the idea just has so many issues
> associated
> that I had to comment.
> 

Well, thinking it as far as some here did, your concerns have much merit. 
You're _not_ a wet blanket - not even a dry one!

Melanie