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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: matti.aarnio@zmailer.org
Cc: jakj@j-a-k-j.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gmail is a bit too popular..
Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 13:44:51 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070507.134451.08323342.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070507153511.GH3883@mea-ext.zmailer.org>

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-07 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-07 14:55 gmail is a bit too popular Matti Aarnio
2007-05-07 15:03 ` John Anthony Kazos Jr.
2007-05-07 15:35   ` Matti Aarnio
2007-05-07 20:44     ` David Miller [this message]
2007-05-08  6:43     ` Adrian Bunk
2007-06-04 10:55       ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-04 12:10         ` Matti Aarnio
2007-06-04 12:27         ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-07 16:29   ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-07 20:21     ` Martin Bligh
2007-05-07 20:18 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-05-07 21:19   ` Matti Aarnio

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