Peter C. Norton writes:
 > This strikes me as false, or at least incomplete.  Qmail has
 > additional capabilities that make remote list explosion pretty easy.
 > With serialmail and smtproutes a vger-like hub->exploder setup should
 > be doable with some work.  Probably less time would have gone into
 > developing the vger setup had qmail and its packages been around then.

They've been refusing to use qmail for almost three years now:

Date: Wed, 24 Jan 96 22:35:14 EST
From: nelson (Russell Nelson)
To: "David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fast mailer
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David S. Miller writes:
 >    Date: Wed, 24 Jan 96 22:32 EST
 >    From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Russell Nelson)
 > 
 >    Dan Bernstein has written a new mailer called qmail.  It's in
 >    ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/pub/software.  It's still beta test
 >    software, but it seems to blow the doors off any other mail transport
 >    agent I've ever seen.  He says that it makes zmailer's speed look
 >    pathetic.  The mailing list for beta testers is run by qmail, and it's
 >    astoundingly fast.
 > 
 > I'll look into it as time permits (ie. I wont be able to)

I love a man with a little optimism.  And you have little optimism.  :)

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