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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM>
Subject: Re: moving some mail. 
To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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On Wed, 25 Oct 1995, Bill Fenner wrote:

> The USENET paradigm can also make things much better for the overloaded EU<>US 
> link; one (or two or three) copy flows and gets redistributed on the other 
> side, instead of the email copy-per-subscriber...

	sendmail, majordomo and bulk_mailer all prevent the one copy  per 
subscriber distribution disaster.  bulk_mailer sorts the recipient list 
and places multiple addresses on each envelope.  all addresses at a 
single site are grouped together.....there is room for much improvement.

> This whole one-fanout-point thing is the problem (and it's clear that jmb 
> recognizes that).  I'm simply suggesting that adding on another single fanout 
> point may not be the best solution.

	not a single point, but rather a number of points--one for each 
heavy subscriber area or remote area.   my comment of one in germany was 
meatn to illustrative only.

	perhaps psuedo-newsfeed is the way to go.  i am not convinced 
that we want to forgo the advantages that we presently have with mailing 
lists.

jmb

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