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To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
cc: jmb@kryten.atinc.com (Jonathan M. Bresler), gary@palmer.demon.co.uk,
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Subject: Re: moving some mail. 
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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 07:39:59 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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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