[tamarian]

Originally Posted by David Bott

Maybe you do not know my site and thus do not see the same concerns. (Not that you would know the site.)

We see over 65,000 unique people a day with over 3000 showing as on-line most of the day. Over 190,000 register with about 250-300 new registrations a day based on what is going on. Over 6.5 millions posts and under 4000 in Alexa.

Running the clean once a week does not work. In 3 days we could have someone already over the other limit and thus to late for any warning notice for it would have already taken action. The site is very, very active and a lot of mail goes out.

vBouncer was written for large sites. Smaller sites have no use for it, so I'm aware of the load issues, that's why I wrote it

You don't need to run the "clean" cron once a week, but hourly is an overkill, and provides no benefits, unless your warning period is defined as hourly. The interval should be no less than your warning interval, can be 2 days, 3 days.

Users who have not visited for a month or more, will never get instant notification emails. It's either the daily digest, or the weekly digest. If you set your digests to run in the off hours, then 99% of the mail load damage is caused by instant notifications, which is done by active members only.