Vritra, LetterRip Pro is very easy to use and quite stable. I have used it for years on a number of lists of various sizes and frequency. It has worked very well and I am happy with the product.
LetterRip is extremely efficient in bandwidth, memory and CPU. Your machine will be able to handle this kind of list without ever noticing it. I have run it on old (1999 era) G4s and never even noticed the impact on the OS. With a modern MacPro you should not even notice it. The machine you outline is actually overkill for the size list you have. This will not interfere with Final Cut Pro in anyway that I can see. LetterRip is very easy to setup a list and maintain it with minimal work. This is the feature that sells it to me. Since LetterRip is a small (ie one person) shop, there can be delays in getting responses from the developer. However, the upside is that Jud is VERY responsive to bug fixes etc. and one doesn't have to wait long for minor fixes to roll out. That being said there are a couple of things to note. 1. LetterRip Pro cannot run as a background daemon and it must run under a logged in account. That account can be hidden with Fast User Switching but it must stay logged in. 2. LetterRip is a PPC application and not universal binary. Thus it will run under emulation with rosetta. 3. LetterRip is sort of in code "maintenance mode". Here is a quote from the developer: >Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:37:58 -0000 (GMT) >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[...]adding features to Letterrip isn't a high priority for >me. I have a chicken and egg problem. Sales are very, very low. There is >IMO, less of a market for mailing list managers today than there was when >it was first introduced in 1996. I am 100% positive that I could double or >even triple sales with a bit more effort but it would literally take >10-15x the current clip to make me think about quitting my day job. I >don't believe that is possible. > >Lot's of people have day jobs and publish software on the side. In the >last year, I've taken a new role at work that has me very, very busy. It's >seriously cut into the things that I had planned for Letterrip (daemon >support which required networking code rewrite, better support for "mail >merge" support, etc.). Making things a little more difficult is that for >the first time in my life, I am writing Windows code rather than Mac code. Apologies to Jud if I am misrepresenting things. -Scott At 6:46 AM -0700 8/25/07, Robert Ameeti wrote: >I've used LetterRip for about 10 years and find it to be stable, flexible, and >very efficient. > >At 10:53 PM -0600, 8/24/07, Vritra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >>From what I've been able to gather online at the Letterrip web site this >>seems like a good suggestion. >> >>I am unsure about the idea of using my Mac Pro as a server. Is this a >>straightforward process? Or will it create unforeseen problems for me? >> >>Will this process negatively impact my actively using Final Cut Studio on a >>new Mac Pro? >>My list volume is fairly small, about 15 to 20 messages per day to 500 >>members. I've installed 10 GB ram. >> >>My Email, with questions, to the Letterrip sales address has netted me 0 >>response in a week or more. That gives me the feeling that I shouldn't >>expect much in the way of technical support. >> >>Is this a program that a fairly technically unsophisticated Mac user can >>manage without too much pain? -- This message is from the Letterrip-Talk Mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/letterrip-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/
