Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:49:35 -0400
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On Apr 18, 2006, at 8:10 PM, Bill Verity wrote:
> These are *JOB* files that listserv has not processed yet. We run
> 18 smtp helpers on the outgoing queues and that seems to keep up
> just fine. We do *not* run spam assassin or any other filters. As
> I said, they would just make our input queues worse, in my
> opinion. They would save our readers from looking at spam, so we
> might do this someday.
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> I don't know why this bottleneck happened although the queues have
> been getting worse over the last several months. It is
> interesting, in a good way, that a lot of work flows paste all of
> these queued jobs. A "Thanks" message often comes right back, and
> a lot of list traffic gets through. Listserv takes a "quick" look
> at incoming files and tries to prioritize the job queue in some
> fashion.
Bill, don't you have the option of running your lists with
"Confidential= Yes or Local" and/or "Send= Private"?
This is what I do for most of the lists here. As a result, I rarely
experience spam being distributed to lists' subscribers.
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