Xref: utzoo comp.protocols.tcp-ip:6992 comp.mail.misc:1858 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pritch From: pritch@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Norm Pritchett) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Seeking advice on establishing a LARGE centralized mail system Message-ID: <46380@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 3 May 89 21:08:54 GMT References: <890428.154928.+0200.af@sei.ucl.ac.be> Reply-To: Norm Pritchett Followup-To: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 26 I'd like to thank all those who answered my query regarding the subject of this posting. For those who wanted me share what I found, that will be forthcoming -- I still have messages coming in at a steady rate and I'd like to wait for them to trickle off before I share. From the collective responses I got I was able to devise a pretty good scheme. I won't share it yet because some ideas are still being hashed out among some fellow networking folks on campus but if you are familiar with DND there's a lot of similarity to that. In my original posting I (intentionally) didn't present an accurate idea of the size of userbase we had to address because I didn't want to disuade some people from responding just because they thought their system wouldn't work for us. I mentioned 4 figures or larger in my message -- what we really need is a scheme that will comfortably handle a population in excess of 75,000. If some of you have thought about trying to develop such a system this large but have been disuaded for some reason or another (I've heard from a few such places) I think we've got something for you... stay tuned. -- Norm Pritchett, The Ohio State University College of Engineering Network Internet: pritchett@eng.ohio-state.edu BITNET: TS1703 at OHSTVMA UUCP: pritch@sydney.columbus.oh.us CCNET: ENG::PRITCHETT (6172::PRITCHETT)