From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 30 11:28:36 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA10259 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 May 1995 11:28:36 -0700 Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [198.137.146.49]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA10219 for ; Tue, 30 May 1995 11:28:25 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rover.village.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA01775; Tue, 30 May 1995 12:27:17 -0600 Message-Id: <199505301827.MAA01775@rover.village.org> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: mailing lists Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 30 May 1995 10:54:36 EDT Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 12:27:17 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk : unfortunately, there just does not appear to be that much overlap : in addresses. even an isp like netcom only shows 9 addresses out of the : 527 current subscribed to hackers ;( ( 527??? now bad, huh? ;) Would it make sense to find 10 sites that can handle forwarding 50 messages each to other sites near them? That way freefall gets a break and only has to send 10 messages for each one that comes in (plus, say, the people that are local to freefall). Warner