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From: kreed@tnet.com (Kevin W. Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.smail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sendmail vs. Smail...
Date: 11 Dec 1996 20:24:03 -0700
Organization: TeleSys Development Systems (TNET)
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References: <57tf61$gq7@raven.eva.net> <58h6r1$8ik@ezekiel.eunet.ie> <1996Dec1005.15.53.2968@koobera.math.uic.edu> <58mchc$d6o@ezekiel.eunet.ie> <1996Dec1121.15.26.13717@koobera.math.uic.edu>
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djb@koobera.math.uic.edu (D. J. Bernstein) writes:

>In article <58mchc$d6o@ezekiel.eunet.ie>, Nick Hilliard <nick@eunet.ie> wrote:
>> ... at the expense of running 10 extra delivery daemons on your local system
>> and using 10x traffic.

>What percentage of your mail volume consists of messages with 10
>recipients on the same system?

Obviously you have never run a large mailing list.  On our systems with
Mailing lists on them, a large percentage do.

Qmail doesn't support UUCP Bang paths as well which a site that 
supports those types of connections requires.