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[โ€“] ybl@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was probably some idiot running scripts on their laptop. I expect email systems detect this activity easily and block it, but I guess not.

[โ€“] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 4 points 2 months ago

Mail servers will sometimes drop excessive mail if it comes too fast But an upper limit per address would be novel, and I'm not sure what sort of limits one would put there.