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On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 06:47:17 +0000 (UTC), Rizla <nothere@noway.com> wrote:

How long will it take to send an e-mail to 4,723,933 users?

Probably not too terribly long.  That's maybe what, five gigs of email, 
total?  In reality, they need not even send quite that much, as they 
only need to make one connection to, for example, Yahoo.com, just 
defining multiple recipients.  Ditto with aol.com, earthlink.com, etc.  
You could probably fit 95% of that population in 150 mail servers.

How will the S@h server cope with 4,723,933 dowmloads?

It probably won't have to.  Out of those 4.7 million registered users, 
how many are active participants today?  Out of those active 
participants today, how many are going to switch away from SETI@Home and 
over to BOINC right away?

-- 
Rob                                |  If not safe,
Email and Jabber:                  |    one can never be free.
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