> (a) does mailman make a copy of the message to each of the
> recipients (as majordomo does) or does it work in the form
> of a (listserv) job such as
> i.e. sending the message with distribution list to a server
> and "exploding" the contents due to some routing tables
> arrangement, saving much bandwidth and cpu time, etc. ...
yes, although I can't believe Majordomo doesn't do that as well.
Mailman will send mail to N users using M SMTP transactions
(or invocations of sendmail if you have it so configured),
where M = N / (some constant).
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