From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen To: law@cygnus.com Cc: Carlo Wood , egcs@cygnus.com (egcs@cygnus.com) Subject: Re: Why is this list so slow? Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 06:39:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <10551.899068754@hurl.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1998-06/msg01047.html Jeffrey A Law writes: > Long term we'll probably drop sendmail and use a more list efficient > mailer, but until then (an that may be a long time) the list will > probably continue to have a relatively long latency. An alternative[1] (used successfuly by the high-volume linux mailing lists) is to use external exploders based on TLDs (e.g. one for Europe, one for .com etc.). Maybe someone would volunteer to run such a exploder. -Andi [1] Actually they don't use sendmail of course, but zmailer, but the splitting over exploders helps a lot too.