From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 14 15:02:32 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA01518 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jun 1995 15:02:32 -0700 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.atinc.com [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA01511 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 1995 15:02:28 -0700 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id RAA25458; Wed, 14 Jun 1995 17:55:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 17:55:57 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: LIST PING To: Chuck Robey cc: Terry Lambert , hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 14 Jun 1995, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jun 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > I am pinging the lists. 32 messages, not all of them BSD, in a 12 hour > > period is blatantly abnormal. > > Curious. I just got this, 17:24 Eastern. I sent my response to > you and hackers about 20 minutes ago, I got it 20 seconds after I got this. > You must be at the tail of the list. Matter of fact, when I checked > the majordomo who response, you were near the end of the list. the list does not have 'an' end. it gets split by bulk_mailer into a set of lists, each sub-list contains 20 (command line configureable) different hosts. the number of users is not limited. the host names are sorted before the sublists are created. the mail is then queued/sent to each sub-list 'at the same time.' so the worst case is to at the end of a sub-list of at most 20 hosts. jmb Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346