From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Witten Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/6] send-email: Add --delay for separating emails Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 16:02:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <49dcb464.06d7720a.66ca.ffffbd30@mx.google.com> <20090409081443.GB17221@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7vskkh1va5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 09 23:04:20 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 1Ls1Py-0000CB-Oi for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:04:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759641AbZDIVCh convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2009 17:02:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759109AbZDIVCh (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2009 17:02:37 -0400 Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.92.25]:48204 "EHLO qw-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757720AbZDIVCg convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2009 17:02:36 -0400 Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 8so961187qwh.37 for ; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:02:35 -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=5Kmu63lvr8cpUuSx8wedffJr+lYmWsV+67Bp6kuTooA=; b=fZoDyvhj2bAB6RC0+UZdZWiHU4LiL7GFAos27iRWfrv2Yhojx74x6Jkj5UEk9FtBFg kRpxQ/LfDNV0OVuW3cGLKunD4ttlhq3ghWg2c3zkNPX+Xbr4k1wZvzI6a9ya0GZ5Vd2C Or5JLZrf7phfXNDJdBb7ChS+hH3nqjccGBVqM= 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=Zyy5E7JCspY9YFrZEI4CyZK4uD+ilkZBAIOqlBpYshsVaUzYOj3cIzTbpkK9s915ZG RBkH9JtZbF6OEg/KYLFw33NMC1rQQ1yX6/HLB+Nv7CI1GEgz3ndxt7gwHk3Ga8ezwPWf etV6creMuRuETEzboJkpFLTWTwmUZQZI0WGSU= Received: by 10.224.60.70 with SMTP id o6mr3467039qah.280.1239310955342; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:02:35 -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 15:59, Michael Witten wrote= : >> Perhaps --pause=3DN,M to say "Pause N seconds for every M messages",= where >> Michael's --delay=3DN is just a shorthand for --pause=3DN,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. =A0Then whe= n you >> have a series smaller than 20 you won't have to suffer from any arti= ficial >> delay. > > This sounds reasonable, but I would have: > > =A0 =A0--rate=3DM/N I take that back. Clearly `rate' connotes an average rather than a burs= t.