[Mailman-Developers] big list

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:49:39AM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> When you turn on VERPing Mailman makes a unique copy of each message
> for each recipient, so do the math. :)
> 
> There might be a way to defer this until SMTP delivery time, in which
> case we'd only create the copies in memory when talking to the smtpd.
> These copies would get gc'd after delivery, but we'd still have to
> play the game that I think Marc brought up about not blasting too many
> messages down the same socket connection.

This is the 'range' dilemma.  We need an 'xrange' solution.

Cheers,
-- jra
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