On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:10:07PM -0400, Michael T. Babcock wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Sill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> > The problem you seem to have with qmail-send is that it processes
> > deliveries in the order in which they're received. This property is
> > known as "fairness", and it's perfectly reasonable in a queuing system
> > that doesn't support multiple priorities.
>
> Actually, its just FIFO. Fairness would involve queuing and re-ordering of
> some form. Fairness infers intelligence on the part of the queuer. Now you
> can say that there is fairness built in to the randomness of the queue's
> order, but its not "fairness" in a queuing sense. SFQ comes to mind w.r.t.
> IP packets.
That depends totally on what characteristic(s) of the email you use to
process the queue. FIFO is absolutely fair in the sense of submission order. You
want it to be fair based on some other characteristic. Fine.
> Incidentally, I don't agree with the original poster's assumptions. But
> qmail-send isn't "fair" -- thats a level of complexity that wasn't added and
When you say it "isn't fair" what you mean is you want a different ordering
characteristic than the one currently coded into qmail-send. Lot's of people
claim they want queue processing on lots of different characteristics - but
that's got nothing to do with "fairness" it's got to do with their own
preferences in their environment.
Regards.
