Re: gmail is a bit too popular..

[Martin Bligh]

Satyam Sharma wrote:
> On 5/7/07, John Anthony Kazos Jr. <jakj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > In the  linux-kernel  -list subscribers domain popularity
> > > analysis I got following results:
> > >
> > >    2101 gmail.com
> > >      49 googlemail.com
> > >      46 gmx.de
> > >      41 redhat.com
> > >      33 yahoo.com
> > >      23 suse.de
> > >      22 gmx.net
> > >      21 comcast.net
> > >
> > >
> > > The  gmail  is so popular, that with their somewhat rudimentary
> > > inbound MTA software this kind of recipient masses take horrible
> > > time to feed in...  Mere 0.5-0.7 seconds per recipient, but..
> > [...]
> > How about some elitism here? Dedicate a certain number of streams to
> > everything-except-gmail, so MTAs from the 21st century can get their mail
> > faster, and set the rest on gmail-only. Slows down gmail and speeds up 
> > the rest?
>
> Aargh ... what did us poor folk do to deserve this? I understand ~2000
> of those Gmail users are only spectators, but most others don't have a
> choice. In my case, my university doesn't allow mailboxes to go beyond
> a certain limit and only a couple of weeks worth of lkml would eat
> that up. And I suspect other free web mail servers that offer 3 GB of
> space too would be equally slower. But I do hope someone from Google
> listened to this -- half a second per recipient ... *sucks*.

I filed a bug on it, copying Matti's email. Whether it's easily fixable
or not, I have no idea.

M.
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