Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!SAGE.ACC.COM!art From: art@SAGE.ACC.COM Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: RE: The TCP-IP List Message-ID: <8811291126.AA06611@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 28 Nov 88 17:45:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 20 >It takes the mailer about 3 hours to mail out one message to the whole >list. This means it can't handle more than about 8 messages a day >without getting backlogged. Please don't clutter things up with one >line responses, flames, or other useless personal comments. How many end subscribers does the list contain? I would suspect that many could be within a university or at least a regional that could better be served by a second level redistribution machine. Having the NIC have to spend the time mailing across the Arpanet/MILnet and probably a couple of more routers surely must waste a lot of time. The domain name system went to a distributed hierarchical scheme to deal with the scaling problem and the TCP-IP list isn't likely to get any smaller with time. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Art Berggreen Advanced Computer Communications | |720 Santa Barbara Street | | (805)963-9431 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+