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From: craig@NNSC.NSF.NET (Craig Partridge)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: re: The TCP-IP List
Message-ID: <8811232345.AA27784@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 23 Nov 88 16:16:03 GMT
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> It takes the mailer about 3 hours to mail out one message to the whole
> list.  This means it can't handle more than about 8 messages a day
> without getting backlogged.  Please don't clutter things up with one
> line responses, flames, or other useless personal comments.

Mark:

    While I generally agree with the gist of your posting, the notion that
the TCP-IP community is limited to 8 messages (substantive or not) of
discussion per day is highly disturbing.  How can we increase the NIC's
delivery capacity?

Craig