"LISTSERV site administrators' forum" <[log in to unmask]> 
wrote on 03/06/2006 04:01:13 PM:
 
> If memory serves this has been the case since SMTP "workers" were 
> introduced in 1.8b.

Will Listserv ever do away with the need for a relay and send mail 
directly to the recipient?  Using a relay could still be available as an 
option for those needing LSMTP or other high performance mail processing, 
but our server has fewer than 100 lists, the largest of which is under 200 
members.  99.99 percent of the time it is sitting there idle.  Proccessing 
outbound mail would not tax it at all!  Consolidating it would be one 
single point to check for troubleshooting too.