At 11:39 AM -0400 8/25/99, John R Levine wrote:
> The main reason that some people don't like them is that it requires that
> each copy of a message be sent separately, rather than sending one message
> per site with a bunch of addresses, which is alleged to be slower. If you
> have very large messages, a very slow connection, and lots of recipients at
> the same placee (AOL maybe), that's probably true. But for normal list
> traffic, sending all of the messages in parallel is usually faster because of
> decreased latency.
Depends. Another big slowdown is number of messages, since you're
stuffing lots fo data into your mqueue (or mqueues), you start
running into slowdowns based on directory size and/or disk I/O. It
requires smarter delivery engines, either where your MLM does the
SMTP stuff itself (as Infobeat does), or smarter queue management
passing stuff off to sendmail (or whatever). Loading your outgoing
queue directories into RAMdisk makes a huge difference, too...
It requires some more intelligence on the delivery engine, but if you
do it right, it's possibly faster, and not really any slower. But you
won't do it with a standard release of MJ, bulk_mailer and sendmail.
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