Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 22:11:19 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org>, scrappy@hub.org, nate@mt.sri.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: People getting automatically unsub'ed from -arch Message-ID: <380395E7.2D38E200@pipeline.ch> References: <19991012142522.57A98152AF@hub.freebsd.org> <38038AA5.45796B87@pipeline.ch> <v04205504b4293cb18531@[195.238.21.204]>
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Brad Knowles wrote: > > 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. That is just how VERP works, every email is unique (at least the return-path). They must be crazy to run a several million recipients mailing list with sendmail... Do you remember the time when the FreeBSD lists were driven by sendmail? The lists were lagging several hours behind. And I don't think we have high two or three digit k subscribers on a single list. Maybe JMB can shed some light on how many people are subscribed to the lists (just ranges). -- Andre Oppermann CEO / Geschaeftsfuehrer Internet Business Solutions Ltd. (AG) Hardstrasse 235, 8005 Zurich, Switzerland Fon +41 1 277 75 75 / Fax +41 1 277 75 77 http://www.pipeline.ch ibs@pipeline.ch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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