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On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 06:11:44PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 9:17 AM -0400 2002/08/23, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > Interesting... mail.merit.edu seems to be running Postfix. > > Indeed, that was part of my point. They've already made a pretty > good choice for an MTA to handle mail for the list. > > > Did they dumb it down? :) > > I doubt it. They've just got a big list, and they may not have > tuned the installation quite as much as they could have. As of about a year ago, the major problems were: The subscriber list is *HUGE*. It is relatively high volume. Even running postfix, they need more per-queue tuning than the mailing list administrator can do amongst her 100's of other jobs (Hi Sue!). For the most part, things work pretty well. > Brad Knowles, <[email protected]> -- Jeff Haas NextHop Technologies
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