[svlug] Fw: MICROSOFT ACQUIRES LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM

[George Bonser]

On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Javilk wrote:

>     Based upon mailings of several hundred notices and newsletters from my
> machine, I do not believe that this is quite the way is sounds.  If it
> were, I would be unable to run mailing lists from my Linux machine.   Item
> on the queue are skipped when they don't respond quickly enough, and the
> residuals are eventually either transferred, or returned as undeliverable.

<shrug> Sendmail sends one email at a time. I have worked in a lot of
networks where a site is down (usually a department within the company)
and the mail queue gets so backed up that the mail needs to be swept out
of the main queue and put in a holding area until the site somes back up.
Exim does this for you as a matter of course, and when the remote site
comes up, it will grab all of that mail and ship it off.

>       Somehow, I don't think so.  But what do I know?  I only attended an
> interesting lecture by the creator.

I attended the same lecture and have great respect for the author. That
does not change the fact that the program is obsolete and needs major
work to compete in today's high-bandwidth world.


George Bonser

The Linux "We're never going out of business" sale at an FTP site near you!


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