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Subject: Re: MTA's (was: VERY large mailing lists.)
From: Richard Welty <rwelty @ neworks . net>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 13:44:57 -0400
To: Russ Allbery <rra @ stanford . edu>, majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <m3n2acig7m.fsf@windlord.Stanford.EDU>
References: <Richard Welty's message of "Tue, 14 Jul 1998 09:29:59 -0400"><19980713194445.13378.qmail@sws5.ctd.ornl.gov><3.0.5.32.19980714092959.007bce50@krusty-motorsports.com>

At 08:51 AM 7/14/98 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>Do you believe e-mail traffic to be of sufficient quantity to be even
>noticeable at a high-traffic interchange point like MAE-East under high
>load conditions?

on reflection, probably not, but still, launching more connections than is
really necessary still strikes me as inherently anti-social, and the qmail
assumption that bandwidth is cheap still doesn't hold up in a backbone
environment that includes the MAEs.

richard

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Richard Welty
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