Bonjour,
> No, actually... unless I"m missing something subtle in the sort args, the
> list is sorted by *host*, and so all the mail.* hosts are lumped
> together, regardless of domain, etc. rather than really sorting 'by
> domain' which usually means dot-segment-right-to-left, so all the '.au's
> are at the top, the '.edu's toward the middle and the '.za's at the end,
> all of the *.hp.com and *.microsoft.com addresses sorted together, etc.
Try the script listed here http://www.dolist.net/helpers.asp
"A trick to optimize e-mail delivery for big lists. The idea is
to write all e-mail for the same domains sequentially. For this
you need to sort the members file by domain."
You need the HAWK utility which is available for *nix & Win32.
Thank you,
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Denis Olivier,
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