D. J. Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 17 January 1999 at 04:24:14 -0000
> The qmail mailing list delivers each message to more than 1000 hosts
> within 60-80 seconds after the message is opened.
>
> For example, these five messages were submitted simultaneously, and led
> to nearly 5000 successful deliveries in the first 5 minutes:
>
> > 24354 Dec 19 1998 0:05:07
> > 24353 Dec 19 1998 0:03:50
> > 24352 Dec 19 1998 0:02:43
> > 24351 Dec 19 1998 0:01:37
> > 24350 Dec 19 1998 0:00:35
And I'd call this really excellent performance.
> Of course, all bets are off when there's a network outage:
>
> > 25731 Jan 13 1999 6:11:23
Well, yes :-( .
I started quoting actual round-trip times when I saw several claims of
1-2 *second* turnaround times as being typical (I'm more than willing
to believe that some people see them now and then); that seemed
optimistic, and certainly didn't match my experience.
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