At 11:39 PM -0400 8/9/00, John R Levine wrote:
> > "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."
>
>This usually turns out to be a poor tradeoff, it sends fewer bits over the
>wire but the overall list delivery is slower than delivering in random order,
>since random order gets you a lot more parallelism.
Me, I stand firmly in both camps at once. What I do is model the
system to figure out how much parallelism I can handle, and then
split up my list into that many random chunks, and let the MTA worry
about it from there...
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