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A method and system for message delivery in a messaging network are provided for enabling scaling. A messaging network includes a group of a plurality of queue managers, each of which includes means for carrying out a method comprising: receiving a message at a queue manager, removing at least some of the original message data to form a link message, adding a reference to the link message referring to the queue manager, sending the link message to a link message queue, and putting the original message to a local queue on the first queue manager. A link message queue may provided on each of the queue managers in the group, or single link message queue may be provided on one queue manager and accessible by the other queue managers in the group.