[geeks] thoughts on SMTP

[Mike Meredith]

On Sunday 24 March 2002 16:43, you wrote:
> Perhaps they're 0.01% of mail servers, but as someone else said, they
> handle 99.99% of the e-mail.

You could well be right, but I'd like to see some figures before I'm 
totally convinced.

> Any properly designed and balanced system is close to hitting the
> limit of every resource it has at peak usage-- CPU, I/O, bandwidth,

Only if you're working with a flat or predictable demand, *and* you can 
get additional resources as and when you need them.