[Mailman-Developers] Where to start Implement this?
Martin Häcker
mhaecker at mac.com
Sun May 9 14:28:08 EDT 2004
>> I'm a bit confused by the vocabulary used by Jim Tittsler. What he
>> said sounded like not every mail (to a user) is processed on its own
>> but instead many of them are built and send as one mail?
>
> That's correct. That's how mailing lists usually work. They
>take one input message, potentially add things like headers and
>footers, then send that back out to the list recipients -- tens, or
>hundreds, or thousands of addresses.
>
> They typically group as many recipients together as they can,
>so that they send one copy of the message, addressed to multiple
>users.
Now this sounds logical from a performance point of view.
Hm, I tried to find some design documention/overview on the list.org
site, but I couldn't find anything, could somebody give me a hint
about this?
Thanks again,
cu Martin
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