On Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:32:32 EST Jim Jones <JIMJ@JHUVM> said: > You could have the copy of DOMAIN NAMES that LISTSERV@UBVM uses route > the various domains to different places. That is, send .COM entries > to the local SMTP server, send .EDU entries to another server, and > .GOV someplace else... Yes, it's gross, but it would divide the 8k+ > recipients into at least a few chunks. This is roughly what some of the INTERBIT sites do to slice off the traffic: .EDU goes to SMTPA, .COM goes to SMTPB, and so on. As you said it is gross, but it works. A more interesting approach, given that LISTSERV never generates more than a configurable amount of RCPT TO:'s on a given message (by default 500 - it seems to be the highest most mailers appear to take), would be to have the mailer alternate between a number of different hosts in a round robin fashion. To do that it would of course have to be fed configuration statements of the type "when sending mail to INTERBIT, alternate between the following actual nodeids" which would have to be carefully synchronized with BITEARN NODES changes and absolutely not configured once and then forgotten until one of the nodeids in question is deleted and mail starts bouncing :-) Unfortunately I can't think of any better solution at the moment, given that I would hate to see special hardcoded statements for the node INTERBIT (and what about UUCPGATE and others then?). Eric