Tim wrote:
> I dream about the benefits that we could get from VERP delivery --
> reduced CPU utilization, increased server efficiency, less listowner
> confusion, better word-of-mouth, and so on -- but a 40% bandwidth
> increase means buying another T1 or more just to cover the extra
> deliveries. That's a pretty hard sell no matter what the bennies
> are.
I agree. I like the VERP solution too. However, I'm in even a worse
situation than you: the small scale situation. My lists run over a
modem line and are sent to a smarthost that can handle large numbers
of addressees at a time (though I believe I limit it to 500) -- every
addressee gets sent to the same host. So, the bandwidth increase I'd
see would be over several hundred thousand percent increase.
I'm in a non-DSL-able location, and other solutions are not cost
effective at this time. My bounce handler works over 90% of the time
(and it's been over a year since I've had one it missed that I
couldn't figure out on my own in less than a minute), so not changing
is a no-brainer. CPU capacity is cheap, cheap, cheap compared to
bandwidth in my situation. The $500 computer I bought last year for
my own use is twice as powerful as the one that runs the list with
load to spare.
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Michelle Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED] East Palo Alto, CA
