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Subject: Re: AOL mailbox limit, hig volume lists in general
From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb @ koobera . math . uic . edu>
Date: 5 Feb 1997 00:29:06 -0000
To: list-managers @ greatcircle . com

> If I tried this on MACWAY, with 51,000 users and the associated
> turnover, my system would crawl to a halt just handling errors.

Profile. Don't speculate.

How many addresses have ever been added to that mailing list?

How many addresses had to be forcibly removed because they went bad?

How many deliveries would you have made to the bad addresses if each one
had stayed on the mailing list for a month after going bad?

How many deliveries have you made, total, to that mailing list?

> Trust me...

No. That would be tantamount to speculation. I want to see statistics.

---Dan
Put an end to unauthorized mail relaying. http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html


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