Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Posting for the rest of us Message-ID: <1598@looking.UUCP> Date: 3 May 88 16:48:07 GMT References: <1596@looking.UUCP> <4203@dasys1.UUCP> <12238@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Lines: 20 CPU overhead is not a problem in this. Even leaf sites do the message-id lookup. If you keep message-ids for 1 month, that's around 50,000 entries. There might be only 5 to 10,000 entries in the mail routing database. Most sites look up every mail message in the database, and backbone sites already handle more mail than news. It's a hash lookup, after all. Quite fast. And you only have to keep the domains. For example ".att" ".arpa" ".bitnet" ".edu" ".com" etc. just need that one entry for all sites underneath them, since these are maintained domains with maintained mailers. And we only have to do this at enough sites to get the message through: Get your mailer in gear, or get out. I am glad some people are facing reliable mail. But I know, based on what I see in net traffic, that a lot of people, myself included, are not. Somebody saying, "gee, my mail usually makes it" is not a reason to do nothing. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473