Re: [Mailman-Users] Capacity-size of mailing lists

2001-12-28 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:12:03 -0800 Kevin Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We just did a test run of 50,000 and the server came to a grinding > halt. ooops! What MTA, what hardware, how configured, how tuned? I'm going to get in touch with the technology > manager who handles the Cybergo

[Mailman-Users] Capacity-size of mailing lists

2001-12-27 Thread Kevin Phillips
I just got off the phone with the former marketing consultant for Cybergold/My Points and who designed some of the marketing for AOL, Netscape, McAfee, and on. He said the Cybergold opt-in list (people actually subscribed) was 10 million which they sent out every month. We just did a test run of 5

Re: [Mailman-Users] Capacity

2001-12-20 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 12/20/01 11:56 AM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Really? I manage two larger than that (neither on mailman). > > Hurm. In my context above I'm assuming that "list" does not cover > marketing lists per se but only what we'd historically/'net-wise > consider a "mailing list" So

Re: [Mailman-Users] Capacity

2001-12-20 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 07:33:32 -0800 Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/20/01 1:01 AM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Interesting. That is a suspiciously large number given that the >> second largest known list on the planet has just over 2 million >> subscribers.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Capacity

2001-12-20 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 12/20/01 1:01 AM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Are there any capacity limitations as far as the number of names >> mailman can handle at a single time? > > Explicitly no. In terms of runtime resource consumption, yes. I'd be very wary, unless you have really large iron. The

Re: [Mailman-Users] Capacity

2001-12-20 Thread Jay S Curtis
It *used* to be Art Bell's list... On Thursday 20 December 2001 08:48 am, you wrote: > J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 20 Dec 2001, at 1:01: > > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 00:37:47 -0800 > -- > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Capacity

2001-12-20 Thread Marcel Hicking
J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 20 Dec 2001, at 1:01: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 00:37:47 -0800 > Kevin Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Are there any capacity limitations as far as the number of > > names mailman can handle at a single time? > > Explicitly no. In terms of runtime reso

Re: [Mailman-Users] Capacity

2001-12-20 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 00:37:47 -0800 Kevin Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any capacity limitations as far as the number of names > mailman can handle at a single time? Explicitly no. In terms of runtime resource consumption, yes. > Our company has a list of several million op

[Mailman-Users] Capacity

2001-12-20 Thread Kevin Phillips
Hi, I'm Kevin and new to this list. Love mailman - it's great! Are there any capacity limitations as far as the number of names mailman can handle at a single time? Our company has a list of several million opt-in names that we want to transfer to mailman. So I guess it's two questions: 1)Can m

Re: [Mailman-Users] capacity

2001-12-11 Thread Greg Ward
On 11 December 2001, paul said: > How many members can a mailman list hold? There's no builtin limit. Lists up to a few thousand don't present any serious problems. Any bigger than that, and you have to carefully tune your MTA and Mailman in concert. See the FAQ at http://www.python.org/cgi

[Mailman-Users] capacity

2001-12-11 Thread paul
How many members can a mailman list hold? tia Paul Butler -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users