From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 31 06:36:01 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA05489 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 31 May 1995 06:36:01 -0700 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.atinc.com [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA05473 for ; Wed, 31 May 1995 06:35:58 -0700 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id JAA02544; Wed, 31 May 1995 09:27:24 -0400 Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 09:27:23 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: mailing lists To: -Vince- cc: Mark Hittinger , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 31 May 1995, -Vince- wrote: > > this should speed up mailing list processing > > > > Actually, that wouldn't speed it up much. I'm running several > mailing lists and digests with 5000+ users and with that approach, since > it goes out as one sendmail process, each transient failure will delay the > rest of the list for 5 to 10 minutes. For example, I am running the GUS > Daily Digest and that list has 2000+ users with the digest size being > 20-30k once a day it goes out, it will take 17 hours to finish sending to ugh....17 hours, even several hours is just too much > everyone on a SUN SparcStation 5 on a T3 link on mail.nws.orst.edu since > there are about 5% transient failures which delays the sending of the > digest to the rest of the list for a couple hours since even though if > you did sorting, it will still go out as one sendmail progress. What I > did was used Keith Moore's bulk_mailer which I put for where can i find it. archie failed me and the May archives from majordomo-users describes how to use it but not how to find it ;( none of majordomo-workers, majordomo-users or list-managers has a pointer to an ftp site. a pointer to an ftp site, PLEASE! :)) how did you solve the problem of two copies of each messages being sent to everyone? jmb Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346