3) Opening M connections (where M < N) and sending the messages down those M
pipes without marking the message as having gone through a "could not connect to
mail server" situation but queuing it for that MX instead.

??

Dave Sill wrote:

> Mark Mentovai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Why not?  You can have your cake and eat it too.  Efficient network
> >utilization doesn't mean delayed or slow delivery.
>
> Say you have 100 different messages to deliver to various users at
> AOL. Which will be faster:
>
>  1) Opening one connection to a single AOL MX and feeding them through
>     single-file, or
>
>  2) Opening N connections to M AOL MX's and feeding one message to
>     each?
>
> Answer: 2

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