Re: Need a good bi-directional mail-news gateway

>	Hi. The cypherpunks list is going through some major rearrangements,
>and it appears that we need a bi-directional mail-news gateway for the new
>group alt.cypherpunks and for whatever list(s) come out of the clouds of dust.
>(The list(s) in question may be done in a distributed fashion across many
>different machines, to lessen volume (1000+ subscribers, 100+ messages a day),
>crash vulnerablity, and other problems.) Anybody have experience in running
>a _really_ high-volume mail-news gateway (or in running distributed lists)?
>Please cc: any replies to cypherpunks@toad.com
>	Thanks,
>	-Allen

	your expected mail volume is 100,000+ messages a day?

	i run lists that do 200,000+ routinely.
	recent peak of 350,000 messages

	does that meet your needs?

jmb

At 3:18 pm -0500 2/12/97, Jonathan M. Bresler <jmb@frb.gov> wrote:
                                                   ^^^^^^^
>	your expected mail volume is 100,000+ messages a day?
>
>	i run lists that do 200,000+ routinely.
>	recent peak of 350,000 messages
>
>	does that meet your needs?

Great.

Let's run cypherpunks with a government subsidy.

;-).

Pulling your leg, just a bit..

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga

"So much for a geodesic monitary system..."


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Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox
e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"Never attribute to conspiracy what can be
explained by stupidity." -- Jerry Pournelle
The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/rah/
FC97: Anguilla, anyone? http://www.ai/fc97/

much as the irony of the idea appeals, i am not in a position
to offer a host/machine to run the list.  i *can* offer what i have
learned from running the FreeBSD mailing lists for 2+ years.

	so who has a host/machine, that we can use ;)
jmb

>At 3:18 pm -0500 2/12/97, Jonathan M. Bresler <jmb@frb.gov> wrote:
>                                                   ^^^^^^^
>>	your expected mail volume is 100,000+ messages a day?
>>
>>	i run lists that do 200,000+ routinely.
>>	recent peak of 350,000 messages
>>
>>	does that meet your needs?
>
>Great.
>
>Let's run cypherpunks with a government subsidy.
>
>;-).
>
>Pulling your leg, just a bit..
>
>Cheers,
>Bob Hettinga
>
>"So much for a geodesic monitary system..."
>
>
>-----------------
>Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox
>e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
>"Never attribute to conspiracy what can be
>explained by stupidity." -- Jerry Pournelle
>The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/rah/
>FC97: Anguilla, anyone? http://www.ai/fc97/
>
>