On Sun, 18 Jan 1998 13:45:32 +0000, you wrote:
>Presumably, you expect to be sending (in the 20k example), say, 20
>messages to 1000 people or 1 message to 20000 people rather than the
>other extreme of 20000 messages to 1 person.
Neither; we will be sending different messages to each of 20000
persons. Even when the text of messages would be otherwise identical,
we need to include a unique identifier for tracking purposes and for
automated handling of bounced messages.
The customer database which contain the email addresses is the primary
store. That is, two individuals in the database may use the same
email address; message delivery options specified for two users are
separate even if using the same address. This is a relatively common
occupance when two customers in the same household have separate
financial accounts.
>If so, then a mailing list
>that operates along the lines of majordomo & sendmail will have a far
>smaller impact than you might imagine. Sending a single 50k email
>message to 1000 AOL subscribers, for instance, will result in only one
>50k message plus a list of 1000 addresses being sent to the AOL MTA,
>rather than 1000 50k messages each with one address.
I presume I couldn't count on this small impact when sending different
messages.
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Peter Kobak
kobak@op.net
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