[Mailman-Developers] Re: Looking at performance again

[Barry Warsaw]

On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 11:49, Charlie Clark wrote:

> No, it is outbound "delivery of payload" - our application is large volume 
> outgoing with negligible incoming. Using delivery makes sense for us in the 
> overall sense and we use multiple SMTPs to make this as efficient as 
> possible.

What do you do about bounce processing?  What's your bounce back ratio? 
I would think that with deliveries skewed heavily toward outbound
traffic, incoming bounces will be a fairly large headache, especially as
lists need to be locked to register bounce scores.

-Barry