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Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 13:21:17 -0700
From: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
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To: Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
CC: "John Anthony Kazos Jr." <jakj@j-a-k-j.com>,
       Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gmail is a bit too popular..
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Satyam Sharma wrote:
> On 5/7/07, John Anthony Kazos Jr. <jakj@j-a-k-j.com> wrote:
>> > In the  linux-kernel  -list subscribers domain popularity
>> > analysis I got following results:
>> >
>> >    2101 gmail.com
>> >      49 googlemail.com
>> >      46 gmx.de
>> >      41 redhat.com
>> >      33 yahoo.com
>> >      23 suse.de
>> >      22 gmx.net
>> >      21 comcast.net
>> >
>> >
>> > The  gmail  is so popular, that with their somewhat rudimentary
>> > inbound MTA software this kind of recipient masses take horrible
>> > time to feed in...  Mere 0.5-0.7 seconds per recipient, but..
>> [...]
>> How about some elitism here? Dedicate a certain number of streams to
>> everything-except-gmail, so MTAs from the 21st century can get their mail
>> faster, and set the rest on gmail-only. Slows down gmail and speeds up 
>> the rest?
> 
> Aargh ... what did us poor folk do to deserve this? I understand ~2000
> of those Gmail users are only spectators, but most others don't have a
> choice. In my case, my university doesn't allow mailboxes to go beyond
> a certain limit and only a couple of weeks worth of lkml would eat
> that up. And I suspect other free web mail servers that offer 3 GB of
> space too would be equally slower. But I do hope someone from Google
> listened to this -- half a second per recipient ... *sucks*.

I filed a bug on it, copying Matti's email. Whether it's easily fixable
or not, I have no idea.

M.
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