Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!spdcc!m2c!ulowell!page From: page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: How do you handle large mailing lists? Message-ID: <1545@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> Date: Sun, 19-Jul-87 15:51:25 EDT Article-I.D.: ulowell.1545 Posted: Sun Jul 19 15:51:25 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jul-87 21:02:45 EDT References: <3600@felix.UUCP> Reply-To: page@swan.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) Distribution: na Organization: University of Lowell Lines: 19 Xref: mnetor comp.mail.misc:426 comp.unix.wizards:3314 What is it you're trying to do? There's no difference between small and large mailing lists except that one creates a lot more mail traffic on your machine, and on your neighbors' machines. Sendmail's :include: feature works fine, although it's a bit slow. When somebody sends a message to info-sendmail@ulowell, the load average on ulowell (a vax 750) goes up to about 8 for ten minutes or so, and the phone lines get tied up for a while, but other than that, I don't see any difference from smaller mailing lists, like amiga-minix@ulowell. If you're talking about the administrative details, that's another story. ..Bob info-sendmail-request@ulowell.{edu,uucp,csnet} amiga-minix-request@ulowell.{edu,uucp,csnet} postmaster@ulowell.{edu,uucp,csnet} -- Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. page@ulowell.{uucp,edu,csnet}