Re: [PATCH RFC 1/6] send-email: Add --delay for separating emails
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 15:59, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Perhaps --pause=N,M to say "Pause N seconds for every M messages", where
>> Michael's --delay=N is just a shorthand for --pause=N,1 is what you want?
>> That is, reset the counter to 0 at the beginning, increment it after
>> sending each message, and when the counter is M and if you have more to
>> send, you wait for N seconds and reset the counter to 0. Then when you
>> have a series smaller than 20 you won't have to suffer from any artificial
>> delay.
>
> This sounds reasonable, but I would have:
>
> --rate=M/N
I take that back. Clearly `rate' connotes an average rather than a burst.
Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>