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From: page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
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Subject: Re: How do you handle large mailing lists?
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Date: Sun, 19-Jul-87 15:51:25 EDT
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What is it you're trying to do?  There's no difference between small
and large mailing lists except that one creates a lot more mail
traffic on your machine, and on your neighbors' machines.

Sendmail's :include: feature works fine, although it's a bit slow.
When somebody sends a message to info-sendmail@ulowell, the load
average on ulowell (a vax 750) goes up to about 8 for ten minutes
or so, and the phone lines get tied up for a while, but other than
that, I don't see any difference from smaller mailing lists, like
amiga-minix@ulowell.

If you're talking about the administrative details, that's another story.

..Bob
info-sendmail-request@ulowell.{edu,uucp,csnet}
amiga-minix-request@ulowell.{edu,uucp,csnet}
postmaster@ulowell.{edu,uucp,csnet}
-- 
Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.   page@ulowell.{uucp,edu,csnet}