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#! rnews 1513 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!worldnet.att.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!128.248.178.247!koobera.math.uic.edu!djb From: djb@koobera.math.uic.edu (D. J. Bernstein) Message-ID: <1996Dec2000.07.45.5990@koobera.math.uic.edu> Date: 20 Dec 1996 00:07:45 GMT Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.smail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sendmail vs. Smail... References: <57tf61$gq7@raven.eva.net> <598tvm$t0h@ezekiel.eunet.ie> <1996Dec1821.08.45.5092@koobera.math.uic.edu> <59bjh9$fl1@ezekiel.eunet.ie> Organization: IR Lines: 19 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.sendmail:35400 comp.mail.smail:2746 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32822 In article <59bjh9$fl1@ezekiel.eunet.ie>, Nick Hilliard <nick@eunet.ie> wrote: > (from a traffic/ bandwidth/other system utilisation POV) Blatant hypocrisy. See http://pobox.com/~djb/txt/modest-proposal.txt. > The delivery delay in sending messages with multiple envelope address is > generally not large - it might cause a short delay, but nothing that anyone > could complain about. False. I've already mentioned the case of a message that sendmail simply _could not deliver_ because it insisted on using multiple RCPTs. > considerably more IP traffic False. Measurements have shown at three separate sites that switching from sendmail to qmail _reduces_ traffic. ---Dan Put an end to unauthorized mail relaying. http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html