Re: gmail is a bit too popular..

David Miller
2007-05-07T20:44:53Z

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.