[H-GEN] A request to the list maintainers

[Russell Stuart]

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Sorry :(.  I had thought the Uni paid for it.  I was imagining a box
hidden in an air conditioning duct, busily processing Humbug chit-chat.

Batching will only happen if both the list software and the MTA cater
for it.  I don't know whether mailman of majordomo do cater for it.  As
for the MTA's: sendmail batches, qmail does not, and I don't know about
the rest.

As you say, at worst it will increase the bandwidth by the number of
different versions sent out.  It will increase anyway because I assume
some people will ask for digests.  (If people are whinging about large
sig's now, I can't wait to see what happens when someone replies to a
digest and includes the entire day's posts.)

On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 15:04, Raymond Smith wrote:
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> On 14 Feb 2003, Russell Stuart wrote:
> > I wouldn't mine spending a few happy hours inside the source, to see if
> > I could add an appropriate option to Mailman's configuration pages.  I
> > mean, how hard can it be?
> 
> Yeah - the hooks are definitely there for the option list-wide so I guess
> it would be just a matter of allowing the user to change their
> preferences.
> 
> > The end result might consume a bit more bandwidth because it is no
> > longer sending out 100 identical messages, but I doubt that is going
> > to matter to humbug.
> 
> As the person who pays for HUMBUG's bandwidth[1], I'm not sure I can agree
> with you there ;-) But shouldn't it be possible to send out 'two' logical
> messages one for all the Reply-To munged people and one for Greg and
> myself? I'm presuming that there is some sort of 'batching' going on to
> ensure that identical messages to different users at the same domain are
> sent as one message with multiple receipients. I don't really know.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Raymond
> [1] 14 cents / incomming megabyte for those of you who are interested

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