At 1:30 PM -0400 6/20/02, Harshal is rumored to have typed:
if threshold exceeded, replace the accept file with a file with only my address in it) but am not sure how feasible this is.
Yuck; that seems kinda ugly. I'd probably set up a reject routine that included the failed message and sent back to the poster, and carbon myself. That way, there's feedback to the poster that their post is rejected, and you get a copy of it so you can see what they are going to gripe about. Your way, the messages are delivered to you, but the original poster gets no feedback other than not seeing his post enter the liststream.
I admit I haven't tried such a thing, but it should be trivial to write, I would think. The problem is, it's a disaster waiting to happen; if this is a discussion list (if it ain't, you need to throttle _yourself_), it is _guaranteed_ to tick off everyone who is arbitrarily prohibited from posting, will wreak havok with the threads, and generally make life for the listmaster about as miserable as it possibly could be. If the listmembers cannot voluntarily throttle themselves, you throttling them is going to put you in a _really_ perilous position which will rapidly cascade into list failure.
Rather you than me. Let us know how it works out.
Charlie