On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 07:31:45AM +0100, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David W. Tamkin wrote:
>
> > YI offer [subject prefixes] as an option [for individual subscribers].
>
> Great. How?
>
> Which MLMs allow this sort of thing and isn't it "expensive" wrt to mail
> transport (aren't you generating different data for different
> subscribers)?
LISTSERV allows individual subscribers to set certain preferences for
how the mail looks when it arrives. It is more expensive in that each
delivery requires a separate SMTP connection and additional CPU
grinding to boot. LISTSERV does this partly by having a tightly
optimized MTA built right into the list manager itself.
It might be possible to persuade qmail to do something similar without
too much pain, since qmail already conducts a separate SMTP session
for every message.
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Regards,
Tim Pierce
RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative
system obfuscator and hack-of-all-trades
