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 12:38:15 -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 19:41:07 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 1LryFJ-0006Lh-4p for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:41:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763516AbZDIRiV (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:38:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933580AbZDIRiU (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:38:20 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f118.google.com ([209.85.221.118]:42619 "EHLO mail-qy0-f118.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934072AbZDIRiR (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:38:17 -0400 Received: by qyk16 with SMTP id 16so1532588qyk.33 for ; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:38:16 -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=5Gjr1Dz6VusjxusHIrHi8a+0s7IH39mHIoSG03/3Kr8=; b=u/IVMcWf+XmWAjkN3+Q5kMEIbPi4xTEwQ3qdUft07koR5TOYn+yJchHWc6hY1J1aQd O0lBWqxK7U742xHRH1AJIGT9JcY3POcVJfMAM/qsT7az7z0fja048lpmJM2aTM354gdo vi1BOr/1gfag55ovvhw57Wp16GCy+U91WtZgg= 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=tz+SnbCNlpBmgSZeN6z+hIEDxcKBbtjS5H0cnWu2xZdACsjGf8ddd6sDcwToBEPmiq 7U3bJKbc5TCkHpX3o8eT4sfxWQo7WidjOKgxeVV50qwLmd5sdUyZnFVfO6gajahZMgnl TwjDj2JGfl5K3X7ngom8/GQPT/sPTxZSRHMNA= Received: by 10.224.11.77 with SMTP id s13mr3223616qas.4.1239298695993; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:38:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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 12:27, Michael Witten wrote: > 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. I do agree that --delay could exacerbate the spreading out of patches.