Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!ece-csc!mcnc!gatech!uflorida!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!att!ihlpb!gregg From: gregg@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Wonderly) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc Subject: Re: Mailing lists and the BW they consume Message-ID: <9034@ihlpb.ATT.COM> Date: 5 Nov 88 04:09:40 GMT References: <8811040331.AA00880@rutgers.edu> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 33 From article <8811040331.AA00880@rutgers.edu>, by hxn8477%njitx.decnet@NJITC.NJIT.EDU ("NJITX::HXN8477"): > > I have been thinking about an idea which can reduce the network traffic > greatly. It is about the bandwidth that the mailing lists unnecessarily > consume. What you describe involves separating the envelope from the mail message. The MMDF mailer does this for the PHONENET protocol (dial up traffic). The SMTP protocol allows this as well, and since it is widely used on the internet already (despite someones blunder with debug/sendmail) I suspect that a lot of traffic is already eliminated. SMTP goes like MAIL FROM: RCPT TO: RCPT TO: ... DATA ... . With as many RCPT TO: lines as recepients. As long as the origination point or some point along the ways does not resort to uucp or other 'one message per user' routing, things will be pretty much optomized. (Now all we have to do is convince the world that it is NOT UN*X's fault, just a programming blunder. Of course the media loves this and couldn't care less if it could have been prevented.) -- It isn't the DREAM that NASA's missing... DOMAIN: gregg@ihlpb.att.com It's a direction! UUCP: att!ihlpb!gregg