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

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Yeah well, maybe we better start developing it just in case ;).  Besides,
maybe someone less fortunate than you needs such a system.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Thu, 24 May 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:

> 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
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> Austin, TX
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