Getting pounded .. sigh

[Matt Hampton]

>> Bad sysadmins pay for trying spam me by keeping their crud on disk for 5
>> days.
> 
> hehehe, yeah but do you really want them filling up your log files every
> 10 -60 mins for a week ? some of us run longer, one of our secondary
> MX's we allow our corporate DSL users to use (those that insist on
> running their own local mail servers, mostly exchange Lusers) has a
> retry for 10 days.

I'm not too worried about the 2-300 bytes a log entry it generates.
Disk space is cheap.  However the overhead on queue runners for the
sending server is much more significant.

I did say "bad" sysadmins - they probably won't have changed the
defaults ;-)

matt