On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Alex Kilpatrick wrote:
> Agreed.  I don't think there is an issue with storage.  Each message
> only has to be stored once, @ ~200 per day.  But they have to emailed
> 2000 times.
>
> The issue is with bandwidth.  TCP/IP is pretty inefficient, so there is
> a lot of overhead, plus there is a lot of volume when you multiply even
> small emails by 2000 recipients.
>

Maybe we could have a more distributed method.. To the end user (us mail
recipients) nothing changes, but on the server side there can be several
mail servers each handling a subset of the whole piclist. That way it
could be run from home DSL connections (albeit quite a few), but that
would cut admin tasks as each home-DSL provider can be the admin for a
much smaller piclist.

I'm quite new here, so still using imagination more than logic :)

Tim

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