distributed mailing list? (Was Re: [SunRescue] Question...)

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:44:14PM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> It wouldn't lessen incoming bandwitdh, but when SunHelp gets a new
> message, it could pass that message to one of the distributed machines to
> dispurse.  So, instead of sun help getting 1 message and sending 300
> (6000000 % 2000, the rough numbers in the table if I remeber correctly),
> sun help would get one and send one, and my computer would get 1 and send
> 300, but where my computer only gets every 50th message (meaning I send
> about 12000 messages a day.  

Neat idea, but I'd prefer to keep everything centralized.  I can always
turn off the FTP server (SunOS 2/3 images, etc) and cut down on images
on the web page(s), if necessary, but I dont see needing to just yet.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX