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On Thu, 9 Feb 1995 17:38:50 -0500 (EST) Larry Snodgrass
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>CREN has been attacking the INTERBIT problem from three directions.
>Briefly they are:
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>1) Provide Listproc so the list management function can be moved to
>smaller, cheaper Unix systems.
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>2) Provide a high volume mail transfer agent for Unix systems (ZMailer).
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>3) Provide P/370s to be installed in RS/6000s so the P/370 can do NJE
>routing and the RS/6000 deliver Internet mail.
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>(...) These are CREN's ideas for removing the huge INTERBIT load from
>IBM mainframes. None of these solve the entire INTERBIT problem for
>sites doing the highest volume. Our goal is to provide some relief in
>the short term and solve the entire problem in the long term.
Larry,
Could you please elaborate on the short term part? As I understood your
message, #3 is not available today, and #2 is really an add-on to #1 that
you need to deliver large volumes of mail. So, if I understood you
correctly, CREN's plan for the short term is to make everyone switch to
ListProc? Is that correct or did I miss something?
Anyway I'm glad that CREN's plans for INTERBIT are finally public and
that an open, public discussion is invited. I'm volunteering LSTSRV-L for
this purpose as LISTSERV users are the main victims of these INTERBIT
delays and most of them are CREN members. Let's see what they think about
CREN's plans.
Eric
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