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Subject: Re: MTA's (was: VERY large mailing lists.)
From: "Roger B.A. Klorese" <rogerk @ QueerNet . ORG>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 09:47:22 -0700 (PDT)
To: Dave Sill <de5 @ sws5 . ctd . ornl . gov>
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <19980714140037.29368.qmail@sws5.ctd.ornl.gov>

On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Dave Sill wrote:
> Efficiency is not the only criterion for determining what to do.
> Performance, reliability, and capability are others. qmail is willing
> to trade network bandwidth (efficiency) for delivery rate
> (performance), simplicity of design (reliability), and VERP
> (capability).

Those are all flavors of efficiency.  And qmail is not "willing" to do
anything.  It's software.  Senders who wish to make decisions about
receiver resources are "willing" to use qmail to do so.
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