[geeks] thoughts on SMTP

[David Cantrell]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 08:43:33AM -0800, David Passmore wrote:
> Any properly designed and balanced system is close to hitting the limit of
> every resource it has at peak usage-- CPU, I/O, bandwidth, memory, disk,
> etc. Anyone with any brains who is designing an ISP mail system for millions
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> of transactions will solve the I/O issue and hit CPU and memory bottlenecks.

I think you summed the problem up very nicely there.  I bet every single one
of us can name a large ISP which doesn't have a single Clue in the entire
company.

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