[Mailman-Developers] Huge lists

Peter Evans peter@gol.com
Wed, 24 May 2000 08:52:50 +0900


J C Lawrence (claw@cp.net) wrote:
> Barry A Warsaw <bwarsaw@python.org> wrote:
> > However, I'm at a slight disadvantage right now with my
> > development environment.  What I think would help would be for
> > some of you to `donate' large blocks of fake addresses, which I
> > could subscribe to email lists of varying sizes.  I'd like to
> > create lists of 1k, 10k, 100k, 250k, 500k, and 1M recipients.  Do
> > you think between us we can gather 1M fake recipients for a test
> > list?
 
> I'll provisionally offer, ohh, two blocks, one of 5K addresses and
> another of 1K.  Setup for the addresses will be as aliases piping
> directly to /dev/null.

@some.dom.ain	/dev/null

any number of addresses, almost instantly, postfix and sendmail have
this functionality.

of course, you have to be careful to balance the bits in your mail or
/dev/null could become charged with too many 1's.

	P
 
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