On Fri, 14 Jun 1996 03:04:37 +0200 Nicolas Graner said:
>Exactly what overhead is generated by NOMAIL subscribers? I can think of a few
>hundred bytes to keep their names on disk and a few microseconds each time
>listserv skips their names when processing a post. Am I missing something more
>significant?
 
Well...
- If you pay for LISTSERV by license points the NOMAILs can cost you.
- Any command that checks your list will have more overhead - things like
  signon, signoff, set, scan etc.  And don't forget that global commands
  will be affected too, like LISTSERV maintainers doing Q * FOR [log in to unmask]
- certain housekeeping functions will be affected too such as renewal
  processing, newnode processing, perhaps signup file compression, but that's
  certainly minor.
 
Bill
City University of New York