Sendmail's the answer for us. The only thing that hasn't scaled well is plaintext aliases files: we've got some 20K mail lists, and it's beginning to get somewhat messy, so we're having to go to the non-plaintext solution. But for all the rest, it's stock sendmail with various GUI backends for end-user ease-of-use (and security). Note that we don't have 25K users, but 17K isn't that far off, and we do a *lot* of e-mail.
Sometimes I think Rob should create an add'l choice on the side: Boycott List. We'd put companies who do *really* stupid things like this on it, and leave 'em there until they "change their evil ways." I honestly don't think that the list, in and of itself, would have that much impact, but I do think that it would be, shall we say, un-nerving to have a company listed on the best-known "Nerd" site on the Internet. I do, however, see two potential problems with the list: 1) It would have to be maintained. 2) It could become overly politicized. How would we determine who gets on it? How would we decide when they'd been good enough to get off of it? Still and all, I like the idea, because the word "boycott" makes marketing VP's get sweat like crazy.
Um, folks -- with all due respect to BSD, and using squid to reverse-proxy, what I think Rob may have been getting at is this: 1 Mb file, served 12 times/sec.:
1,000,000 x 12 x 8 =~ 100 Mbit/sec. Last time I checked, a T-3 was approx. 45 Mb/s. You could be running a Cray, and as long as your pipe ain't large enough, your pages are gonna be slow.
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Sendmail's the answer for us. The only thing that hasn't scaled well is plaintext aliases files: we've got some 20K mail lists, and it's beginning to get somewhat messy, so we're having to go to the non-plaintext solution. But for all the rest, it's stock sendmail with various GUI backends for end-user ease-of-use (and security). Note that we don't have 25K users, but 17K isn't that far off, and we do a *lot* of e-mail.
Sometimes I think Rob should create an add'l choice on the side: Boycott List. We'd put
companies who do *really* stupid things like
this on it, and leave 'em there until they
"change their evil ways." I honestly don't
think that the list, in and of itself, would
have that much impact, but I do think that
it would be, shall we say, un-nerving to have
a company listed on the best-known "Nerd"
site on the Internet. I do, however, see
two potential problems with the list:
1) It would have to be maintained.
2) It could become overly politicized. How would we determine who gets on it? How would we decide when they'd been good enough to get off of it?
Still and all, I like the idea, because the word "boycott" makes marketing VP's get sweat like crazy.
Um, folks -- with all due respect to BSD,
and using squid to reverse-proxy, what I
think Rob may have been getting at is this:
1 Mb file, served 12 times/sec.:
1,000,000 x 12 x 8 =~ 100 Mbit/sec. Last
time I checked, a T-3 was approx. 45 Mb/s.
You could be running a Cray, and as long
as your pipe ain't large enough, your pages
are gonna be slow.