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
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>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.

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