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Date:      12 Apr 98 21:00:39 +0100
From:      leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland)
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: more than 32k users
Message-ID:  <b16_9804130917@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk>

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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

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