Re: CRIME Archive of list on the web

From: Crispin Cowan (crispin@private)
Date: Tue Apr 23 2002 - 19:23:28 PDT

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    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 :)
    
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    Crispin Cowan, Ph.D.
    Chief Scientist, WireX Communications, Inc. http://wirex.com
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