Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 07:39:59 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: jmb@kryten.atinc.com (Jonathan M. Bresler), gary@palmer.demon.co.uk, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moving some mail. Message-ID: <27644.814631999@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Oct 1995 09:36:01 BST." <199510250836.JAA22840@keltia.freenix.fr>
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> Like Bill has said, it is the paradigm used Usenet. It works but it is much > slower than mail (even with the timeouts). The vast majority of sites are > three or four hops away from the other. Usenet can make it more then > twenty... I think what *really* needs to happen is for sendmail to get a lot smarter about this.. Sendmail knows who it can't reach, and if it kept timing statistics for some number of "frequent destinations" then it could even intuit who was slow and who was fast, reordering its work queue accordingly. Jordan
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