(OT) Humor and Mailman test

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2007, Tom Palmquist wrote:
>
>Bill Campbell stated the following on 8/23/2007 5:29 PM:
>> I just made a change in the local Mailman configuration which will
>> hopefully speed up list delivery and reduce the load on the server.
>> 
>> ...
>>> Copy Protection: A clever method of preventing incompetent pirates
>>>from stealing software and legitimate customers from using it.
>> 
>
>The incompetent Pirates play in Pittsburgh 8-(

The only time I went to a Pirates game in Pittsburg, they were playing the
N.Y. Giants, and Willie Mays was playing center field.

FWIW:  A very minor change to Mailman that made a major change in
performance on a system running postfix, amavisd-new, and clamav was to set
``SMTPPORT = 10025'' in the mm_cfg.py file.  This causes Mailman to send
outgoing messages to the same completely unfiltered port that amavisd uses
after it has done its spam and virus checking.  Prior to making this
change, each outbound message went through the entire postfix, amavisd,
clamav, postfix chain which had already been done before the message got to
Mailman in the first place.  We're using VERP so there's one outgoing
message for each recipient on the list.

Prior to making this change, the load average on this machine would head
for 10 or above while processing outgoing Mailman messages, but now it
never gets above 2.

Bill
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