Wil Cooley wrote: >Also Sprach Crispin Cowan <crispin@private> on Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 01:59:17PM PDT > >>This delay is because Majordomo blows. Mailman can post to 500 people in >>a few minutes, while Majordomo can take 45 minutes to do the same task. >> >Actually, Mailman's working around a defect in Sendmail's ability to >perform bulk delivery. With a newer Sendmail, the 'bulkdelivery' >agent, Postfix, or probably any other MTA, bulk delivery is broken >up into groups which can be delivered in parallel. > Thanks for the clue. I always wondered why Majordomo's performance sucked so much. I didn't wonder too hard, because the rest of Majordomo sucks too. However, it isn't very surprising that in this instance it is the (standard) sendmail suckage :) >I admit that I prefer Mailman over Majordomo, but PSU hosts quite >a few mailing lists and has procedures set up for managing all of >them; I doubt they're ready for a wholesale migration to Mailman. >Unless you're volunteering to take over hosting on Mithra ;) > Fair enough. It's up to the host to make these decisions. Crispin, who rarely has *humble* opinions :) -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. Chief Scientist, WireX Communications, Inc. http://wirex.com Security Hardened Linux Distribution: http://immunix.org Available for purchase: http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.html
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