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Subject: Re: Lyris
From: Paul Graham <pjg @ urth . acsu . buffalo . edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 22:09:18 -0500
To: "John Buckman" <jbuckman @ shelby . com>
Cc: list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM
References: <199611271803.SAA09898@synergy.transbay.net>

     * Speed
          + Extremely fast built-in mail engine can deliver hundreds of
            messages per second.
          + Built-in ultra-high-performance database engine provides
            thousands of transactions per second.
          + Modern, C++ based multi-threaded design was built with
            performance as the top priority.

i find all of the above claims redolent of marketing department hyperbole.
i would be interested in complete disclosure (e.g. for claim one are you
refering to input to an smtp server or real remote host deliveries, what
sort of platform(s) comprise the testbed, is this a real world test or
a simulation) regarding the specifics.

i did read your features page which led rather smartly to my apparent
incredulity.

-------- In reply to:
> i have no experience with lyris but i find the claims on their web
> pages a bit hard to believe.

I'd like to know which claims you find hard to believe, so that I can 
address your concerns.  We completely rethought how a list server 
should function, in an attempt to get around some of the lingering 
problems with list servers, and have done many things very 
differently.  What you thought was impossible might not be.
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 paul


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