From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 12 12:33: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from out1.mx.skynet.be (out1.mx.skynet.be [195.238.2.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBDF814E65; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 12:32:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@foxbert.skynet.be) Received: from foxbert.skynet.be (foxbert.skynet.be [195.238.1.45]) by out1.mx.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with ESMTP id VAA09017; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 21:32:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from root@localhost) by foxbert.skynet.be (8.9.1/jovi-pop-2.1) id VAA19479; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 21:32:39 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <38038AA5.45796B87@pipeline.ch> References: <19991012142522.57A98152AF@hub.freebsd.org> <38038AA5.45796B87@pipeline.ch> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 21:32:30 +0200 To: Andre Oppermann , "Jonathan M. Bresler" From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: People getting automatically unsub'ed from -arch Cc: scrappy@hub.org, nate@mt.sri.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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, 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