On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Richard Letts wrote:
> note, this speedup only occurs where you have multiple recipients at a
> site; for most lists I'm member of a site typically only have one member
> on the list anyway and the difference is negligible.
Get ahold of the subscriber list for any large (several thousand
subscriber) non-computer-related list, and count the number of addresses
which end up with a final delivery to iName (which constitutes a huge
number of domains), Hotmail, Juno, AOL, MSN, or CompuServe. You'd be
amazed.
This is from direct experience assisting in the management of a large list
(a list for dog owners), not from being a list member. All you see, as a
member, is the people who post. Not the lurkers, whose numbers can be in
the thousands.
(Just for fun, I'll see if I can get a by-domain breakdown from the
current listmom of that list.)
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