On 9 Aug 2000, at 23:39, 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.
> Experienced list members will recognize this as the most contentious
> issue in the qmail vs. sendmail flame war, so you can look up the
> places this has been argued in the past.
And if you are using VERP or other similar protocols (if any) to
customize the email to each user to automate bounce tracking, the
advantage of sorting is pretty much eliminated as each subscriber
will be getting their own copy anyway.
Mike
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