On 1/1/2013 7:33 AM, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 08:46:03PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 12/31/2012 3:06 PM, Marcin Owsiany wrote: >> >>> I imagine this might sound like a spam sending service, but it's not :-) >> >> Hi Marcin, >> >> Q1: Why is a Google Site Reliability Engineer and long time Debian >> maintainer, with two Masters degrees, working on an email blasting >> infrastructure? >> >> Q2: Why are you not leveraging the expertise of the Google messaging >> folks for this project? > > This is probably not completely on topic, but just to make sure this > does not turn into some kind of conspiracy theory:
I didn't intend to imply anything nefarious. By "email blasting" I simply meant high volume, short duration--not spamming. > a) it has nothing to do with my employer whatsoever, > b) I'm doing it because someone I know asked me for advice, > c) as I said, it's not UCE-related, sending a lot of email fast does > have legitimate purposes > d) asking a postfix question on postfix-users seems like a reasonable > thing to me The reason I asked this is that Google is one of the "few big webmail services get a large portion" that you mentioned. Your approach here seems to be optimizing Postfix to "circumvent defenses". Normally one would sign up with these services as a bulk mailer to avoid bulk delivery problems. Maybe you are doing that as well but did not mention it. >> FYI, my first Linux was Potato and I've been Debian ever since. :) >> Thank you for your contributions over the years. > > Not that I contributed a whole lot, compared to some other DDs, but > you're welcome :-) Every small contribution helps. :) -- Stan
