On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 16:45:32 +0200 Giuliano Gavazzi <eximlists@???> wrote:
> even without SQL, how would you propose a "real life" test to be
> done? Where will you get all the hosts to receive from and delivery
> to, with all the DNS lookups and network delays? Perhaps we should
> have a sort of contest, where list members will give a list of
> addresses available to send to and will also be given a list of
> addresses on the test systems to send to.
that would be too many uncontrolled variables, i don't know that the
numbers generated would have any real value.
something organized and structured, a carefully designed "torture test"
sequence, which only varies one variable at a time, would seem to be in
order.
doing it properly would take a _lot_ of work.
richard
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