On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:45:38AM -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > > If I'm sending 100 copies to @aol.com, without VERP, I send the message > > once. > > Not true. You send it 100/SMTP_MAX_RCPTS times (rounded up, of course). So > if your SMTP_MAX_RCPTS is set to ten, you send it ten times.
Right, of course... > > With VERP, I have to send it 100 times. > > Unless the MTA does the VERP for you, Well, see, here's the thing. That *still* doesn't unload the *wire*, just the MLM. > but in the scheme of things, I think > we look at the wrong solution if we only look at VERP. It solves a problem, > but not the entire class of problems -- instead of thinking VERP, think > about per-user custom e-mail, since you not only can put in the stuff VERP > does, but also a lot of good user-experience stuff, like a url that takes > the user to the listinfo page AND brings up his user record in one click. > > When you start looking beyond 'just' VERP to what you can do to improve mail > lsits for the end user, especially the less technical ones, it starts being > a lot more interesting. And once you start adding in this functionality, you > can bring along VERP basically for free, whether or not you use a > VERP-capable MTA. At the expense of loading the wire, the MTA, *and* the MLM. How big are your lists, Chuq? :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 "If you don't have a dream; how're you gonna have a dream come true?" -- Captain Sensible, The Damned (from South Pacific's "Happy Talk") _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
