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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: OT: Cisco.com password reset.
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:26:21AM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote: > > I've talked to "People" at cisco before about email handling > stuff, it takes them a lot of effort to make lists such as > 'cust-security-announce' deliver quickly. I've had some experience > tweaking large lists as well, it takes a significant amount > of effort to deliver to 2k users quickly. Cisco has a lot more than > that registered, and I suspect the delivery is a bit more complicated > with all the dns/resolver load going after all the possible customer > domains they have. > > To give you a rough idea (cisco-nsp for example is a list I host > and is delivered fairly quickly by most peoples standards..) > smtp to cisco-nsp for 2655 recips, completed in 341.639 seconds > > Now imagine if instead of 2655 users it was 1-1.5million, > that puts it at 53 hours in my rough guestimate. (assuming i know > what i'm talking about, and the higher number of 1.5m). Perhaps Cisco should hire some spammers to consult for them. Those folks certainly don't seem to have a ~7-8 mail/sec limitation. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
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