From: Michael Witten Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:02:35 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/6] send-email: Add --delay for separating emails Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 15:59, Michael Witten wrote: >> 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.