[geeks] my head just went explodey

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Sat, 02 Apr 2005 @ 16:55 -0600, Phil Brutsche said:

> Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> >The common "solution" is to put it in an attachment and send it out to
> >1000 people.  If it is 10MB, that's 10 gigs of data transferred and
> >stored.
> 
> Many systems that scale to that number of users have a mechanism for 
> storing a single instance of the message (aka single-instance message 
> store).

That only works if everyone is at the same destination, and many times
you are going to still see the same traffic.

Also, some single-instace storage systems cannot handle messages that
do not arrive as one with a distribution envelop.  A lot of MTAs don't
support efficient routing, or there are other factors that stop it from
working, including users and/or MUAs that send each message seperately
and with a different message ID.

> Of course if your backup mechanism doesn't support hard links...

...and your pipe doesn't support much traffic.

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you have about them.  There should be a process for them to challenge any
inaccuracies." -- Arthur Miller]