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 --- |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 |Internet: leifn@image.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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