Re: gmail is a bit too popular..

["Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>]

On 5/7/07, John Anthony Kazos Jr. <jakj@j-a-k-j.com> wrote:
> > In the  linux-kernel  -list subscribers domain popularity
> > analysis I got following results:
> >
> >    2101 gmail.com
> >      49 googlemail.com
> >      46 gmx.de
> >      41 redhat.com
> >      33 yahoo.com
> >      23 suse.de
> >      22 gmx.net
> >      21 comcast.net
> >
> >
> > The  gmail  is so popular, that with their somewhat rudimentary
> > inbound MTA software this kind of recipient masses take horrible
> > time to feed in...  Mere 0.5-0.7 seconds per recipient, but..
> [...]
> How about some elitism here? Dedicate a certain number of streams to
> everything-except-gmail, so MTAs from the 21st century can get their mail
> faster, and set the rest on gmail-only. Slows down gmail and speeds up the
> rest?

Aargh ... what did us poor folk do to deserve this? I understand ~2000
of those Gmail users are only spectators, but most others don't have a
choice. In my case, my university doesn't allow mailboxes to go beyond
a certain limit and only a couple of weeks worth of lkml would eat
that up. And I suspect other free web mail servers that offer 3 GB of
space too would be equally slower. But I do hope someone from Google
listened to this -- half a second per recipient ... *sucks*.