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echo: mystic
to: Paul Hayton
from: Jay Harris
date: 2021-09-22 07:51:00
subject: Re: Skip Poll?

On 22 Sep 2021, Paul Hayton said the following...
 
 PH> It may be but I was thinking along those lines too... being able to use
 PH> the same notation as the route info line in echomail node config... but
 PH> that said it could be dangerous as someone could launch quite a massive
 PH> polling effort in error if they were not careful.

I was thinking the same thing, you just know someone out there would be polling 1:* 2:* 3:* 4:* hourly.  Some sanity checking would need to be built in for sure.

Maybe limit wildcards to the node level only?  (e.g 21:3/*)


Jay

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