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Re: Bandwidth [was Replacing Yahoo with a paid provider was Posting etiquette]


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  • Subject: Re: Bandwidth [was Replacing Yahoo with a paid provider was Posting etiquette]
  • From: "desgibbons" <des@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 00:00:24 -0000
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--- In ukha_d@y..., "Mark Hetherington" <mark.egroups@m...>
wrote:
> > From: Des Gibbons [mailto:des@xxxxxxx...]
> >
> > errr, you mean 15k x 3000 x 500 :)
>
> I would certainly hope not or Yahoo will grind the net to a halt in
no time.
> Mail servers are generally much cleverer than sending single emails
all the
> time. Let us say you want to send the same email to 100 demon
subscribers,
> you don't send 100 emails since that means 100 out from you to your
email
> server, then 100 travelling around the net until they hit demon and
get sent
> to each subscriber. What you actually do is send one email and let
the
> envelope instruct Demon's email server to create 100 copies to the
> appropriate users.

Assuming a high quantity of people are using the same smtp server,
with most people not using their ISP's smtp server these days, it is
less and less effective.

Des



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