From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 13 00:22:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA22204 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 00:22:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.netcetera.dk (root@sleipner.netcetera.dk [194.192.207.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA22076 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 00:22:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leifn@image.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.netcetera.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id JAA18461 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 09:19:35 +0200 Received: by swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (0.99.970109) id AA01877; 13 Apr 98 09:17:22 +0100 From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) Date: 12 Apr 98 21:00:39 +0100 Subject: Re: more than 32k users Message-ID: Organization: Fidonet: Swimsuit Safari. Go for it. To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12 Apr 98 18:30:45 chas wrote regarding Re: more than 32k users c> Sorry, this just makes me wonder : c> c> If yahoo is using FreeBSD for its services (and I presume c> that that is its free email service), how could they ramp c> up to millions of users all supposedly on the same machine c> (since everyone has the email address : user@yahoo.com). Even if all users have their adress as user@yahoo.com, they don't neccesarely have their mailbox on the same machine. The main mail-receiver machine could forward to mail-a.yahoo.com, mail-b.yahoo.com etc. Leif Neland leifn@internet.dk --- |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 |Internet: leifn@image.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message