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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>
cc: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, hackers@freebsd.org
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On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:

> >According to Luigi Rizzo:
> >> So I am wondering how are the mail exploders chosen
> 
> >They're not really exploders but just sites that gets all domain for a
> >given TLD.
> 
> So are you saying that if there are 100 subscribers in the .fr domain,
> 100 copies of each message are sent from California to France and from
> there directed to the individual recipients?

No, a single message is sent from California to France, but there are 100 
recipients in the SMTP 'RCPT TO: <....>' section.

Having a subscription list in France would be useful in that the 
recipient list would not need to be transmitted for each message, but 
unless majordomo grows some smarts for this, I don't see it happening.

Actually, it probably would not be too hard to majordomo to simply 
forward subscribe/unsubscribe messages to a peer determined by the TLD of 
the sender.

Danny