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Subject: Re: AOL mailbox limit, hig volume lists in general
From: "Lazlo Nibble" <lazlo @ swcp . com>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 13:04:28 -0700 (MST)
To: list-managers @ greatcircle . com (lm)

>> Yes, but by that time you've wasted a huge amount of resources in attempting
>> to deliver those 2000 messages.
>
> Mm-hm.
> 
> This, of course, is so much more important than the resources that you
> put into millions of successful deliveries.

If removing bounced messages from mailing lists in a timely manner is so
unimportant, why did you bother to write this software in the first place?

> Inescapable conclusion: The Internet is about to be overloaded with
> bounce messages.

Probably not.  This particular corner of the net, however, seems to be
burdened with an overload of smartass software developers.

-- 
::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo)

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