From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@frb.gov>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 12:57:03 -0800 (PST)
To: "E. Allen Smith" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Subject: Re: Need a good bi-directional mail-news gateway
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>	Hi. The cypherpunks list is going through some major rearrangements,
>and it appears that we need a bi-directional mail-news gateway for the new
>group alt.cypherpunks and for whatever list(s) come out of the clouds of dust.
>(The list(s) in question may be done in a distributed fashion across many
>different machines, to lessen volume (1000+ subscribers, 100+ messages a day),
>crash vulnerablity, and other problems.) Anybody have experience in running
>a _really_ high-volume mail-news gateway (or in running distributed lists)?
>Please cc: any replies to cypherpunks@toad.com
>	Thanks,
>	-Allen

	your expected mail volume is 100,000+ messages a day?

	i run lists that do 200,000+ routinely.
	recent peak of 350,000 messages

	does that meet your needs?

jmb