From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Witten Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/6] Re: send-email: Add --delay for separating emails Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: <49dcb464.06d7720a.66ca.ffffbd30@mx.google.com> <20090409161756.GA12910@vidovic> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Sebrecht X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 09 19:28:56 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lry3a-0001oT-VR for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:28:55 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757271AbZDIR1V (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:27:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757051AbZDIR1V (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:27:21 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f118.google.com ([209.85.221.118]:63370 "EHLO mail-qy0-f118.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755888AbZDIR1U (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:27:20 -0400 Received: by qyk16 with SMTP id 16so1521270qyk.33 for ; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:27:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ARXYd/PdWgUKYoDFB+jMQrSQLDuk7vmeWaLxAyHNGJ0=; b=YqoLUPhA3ccn5QcSnUJTof++SDEW/9x/hKq8P3W6f/6qDTLeq28gUmH61qlUoybvbK 0HEbFUg6cv/WJ3II9F2tMBvtg1a+0JgjVhDv9+TQlc4FszJeKI2w1pRjK36zCGT0JnlM Q/LnPcu41GMS6+sSRW48ncNNvayaQRBGUvJQc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ORNKI/YeomR7+1cDI4zW25zPWTU9Os6KYTBbwpcMNHmEVrtccSdl+MQbPJwHNESCHf vy8gKrLE+a8xRSeP3komu+PviK8Z505r9LH+8vKcycCyNiHQUvNlTIDd6pWGAtfzBbU+ K/17QIIEAIZtsFYWzdcocaSnF5w/K8+aZ1fFE= Received: by 10.224.80.195 with SMTP id u3mr3149100qak.352.1239298038382; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:27:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090409161756.GA12910@vidovic> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:17, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > > The --delay option may have an undesirable side effect. In case of > non-chained emails, unrelated mails could be insterted between patches > where *all* MUA would be affected. It's not only true for very high > volume message mailing-lists (million monkeys receiving...). FMPOV, it's > worse than all display issues we already know or have with the current > behaviour. But it's already impossible to protect against this scenario. In that situation, the smallest delay possible is desired, so --delay wouldn't even be used (that is, its value would be zero). However, the transit delay could never be small enough to guarantee that no other emails are inserted into the patch series, so the only solution is to chain them. At this point, we're back to the problem of arrival time, and hence --delay becomes useful. :-D