On the 'antistarving' patch

[Mariano Absatz]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:31:47 +0100, Julian Field
<mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> The effect you should end up seeing is that it will tend to deliver new
> messages before it delivers older messages that were in the queues.
Right.

> From user reports, this is actually good as an active email conversation will be
> processed quickly, with the older mail slowly catching up. So it gives
> users the impression of a nice responsive system. Which is why I stuck with
> this approach.
Mmmhh... allright, you have a point... anyway, in a very large
installation, management sometimes looks at the overall data and the
'worst case' goes bad.

If I end up writing a new patch to handle this, I'll do it optional,
with the default behaviour being the current one.

Regards

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