On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:15:02 EST, Liam Kelly <[log in to unmask]>  said:

> although in general I'd agree with Valdis that it's better to fix errors
> (or delete users who generate errors) than it is to /dev/null error
> messages.  Unless you run massively large lists, auto-delete should work
> fine to keep the number of errors at a manageable level.

Actually, if you run *massively* large lists, it's even MORE important to
clean things up.  2% bad addresses on a 200 person mailing list means 1 post
in, one mail item out, and then 4 bounces back to Listserv.  On the other
hand, if you have 2% bad on a 50,000 person mailing list, that's *1,000*
bounce messages that you'll be receiving.

I have a 70K recipient list - the performance issue in postings to it
isn't delivering 70K messages. Sendmail is quite good at handling
those in paralell.  It's catching the bounces afterwards - all those
have to thread through lsv_amin and the main lsv process single-threaded.

/Valdis