[ On Sun, March 9, 1997 at 09:54:27 (+0000), Piete Brooks wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Handling Mailing List Bounces
>
> > Well I am with you on the bandwidth issue,
>
> Does anyone have any actual figures for the average numbers of recipients in
> an SMTP message [ other than smarthost'ed :-) ]
BTW, in case this turns into a larger discussion about the benefits of
qmail's approach to handling the large amount of email often caused by
mailing lists: "bandwidth" is the wrong word (or rather when used in
this context it has the wrong connotations) -- "capacity" is perhaps
better, and "latency" (which is what qmail strives to eliminate), is the
other half of the equation. There's also a bit of apples and oranges
here where reducing the latency of mass-message delivery *can* be
achieved, but only at the expense of requiring additional communications
capacity.
--
Greg A. Woods
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