Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 13:44:51 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: gmail is a bit too popular..
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 18:35:11 +0300

> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:03:54AM -0400, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
> > > In the  linux-kernel  -list subscribers domain popularity
> > > analysis I got following results:
> > > 
> > >    2101 gmail.com
> > >      49 googlemail.com
> > >      46 gmx.de
> .... 
> > 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?
> 
> No need.  gmail has done that slowing down all by themselves quite handily..

Another thing that plays into this is that a lot of folks
think it is funny to open up a gmail account and then
subscribe it to every vger.kernel.org mailing list in order
to fill it up and slow vger down.

I've been cracking down on such malicious subscriptions lately.
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