[geeks] thoughts on SMTP

[Mike Meredith]

On Sunday 24 March 2002 07:04, you wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 12:10:40AM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > Unless you're running one of the 0.01% of mail servers that
>
> Anyone who runs a mail server which handles any volume of mail will
> be running a mail server which is relatively busy, and without

0.75GB per day. Not that much but it's "any volume", and not 
inconsiderable. The load on the servers due to mail is insignificant.

> (2x Ultra 1-170's, 512Mb memory, moving a few gigs of mail _each_ per
> days)

They're not exactly very modern are they ? Sure they do the job, but 
how many places with significant levels of mail traffic will have mail 
servers that old ?