[Mailman-Developers] big list

[Ron Jarrell]

At 01:46 PM 3/8/02 -0800, John W Baxter wrote:
>Aside:  how far we've come from the old mainframe LISTSERV, the network of
>which carefully sent one copy along with a list to addresses to various
>neighbors "near" the addressees for further distribution.  So quite likely,
>only one copy crossed the Atlantic...possibly one one went from Chicago to
>Florida, etc etc.

Still does, to some extent.  Listserv passes jobs to other listservs when it
can figure out that's useful.  Also, part of the license fee for running listserv
is access to be able to distribute big jobs to lsofts large server, and let them
deal with delivering it for you.