Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 21:32:30 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch>, "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: scrappy@hub.org, nate@mt.sri.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: People getting automatically unsub'ed from -arch Message-ID: <v04205504b4293cb18531@[195.238.21.204]> In-Reply-To: <38038AA5.45796B87@pipeline.ch> References: <19991012142522.57A98152AF@hub.freebsd.org> <38038AA5.45796B87@pipeline.ch>
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At 9:23 PM +0200 1999/10/12, Andre Oppermann wrote: > I know some guys with list's in the three digit k to one digit M range > which don't have to deal with bounces at any time. I know it's hard > to believe but it's true and I can provide you with names where one > can ask for confirmation. And Bryan Costales & Eric Allman have hacked sendmail to support VERPs, and last I heard InfoBeat was handling on the order of several million customers per day. Of course, they're doing an e-mail merge operation so that each recipient gets a unique message, but that would just put an even heavier load on the system than a mailing list the same size. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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