On Mon, 16 Nov 1992 12:51:15 EST Harold Pritchett <[log in to unmask]>
said:
>This is probably reason enough to peer the list. If some way can be
>determined to split up the SMTP addresses, so that they are distributed
>across 10 servers located on the IP backbone. 10*800 has to be better
>than 1*8000.
The problem is that there is no such way if all the addresses end in
domains routed through INTERBIT. And in fact you will probably find that
the closest host to all these US subscribers is in Europe, because EARN
has a "clean" INTERBIT topology whereas only 2 official INTERBIT's exist
in the US. This causes your average EARN node to be closer to INTERBIT
than your average CREN node, and since the Internet has no published
topology you can easily end up with thousands of US subscribers on a
european list and there is nothing you can do about it: the Internet is
not in the US any more than it is in Europe or in the South Pole.
Eric