Re: How do you handle large mailing lists?

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From: Bill Nowicki
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1987 18:06

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In article <3600@felix.UUCP>, zemon@felix.UUCP (Art Zemon) writes:
> 
> I have a relatively large mailing list, info-ultrix, which
> has outgrown the alias facility in sendmail.  

Most early versions of sendmail had bugs and performance problems with
very large mailing lists.  Here at Sun we have a list with four
thousand people on it, and several with over three thousand.  Usually
each of these gets a few messages per day.  Needless to say, we fixed
many bugs with long lists.  We fed bug fixes back to Berkeley, and the
4.3BSD sendmail is much better than the 4.2BSD one.  I am biased, but I
think the SunOS 3.4 (and SunOS 4.0!) sendmails are even better.

	-- WIN

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From: nowicki%rose@Sun.COM (Bill Nowicki)
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Subject: Re: How do you handle large mailing lists?
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Date: Mon, 20-Jul-87 14:06:20 EDT
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