Re: [cobalt-users] 17,000 member email list

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 8/11/00 9:57 AM, Geoff Baysinger at lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>> Would the addition of a majordomo list of this size be wise/unwise for a
>> Cobalt Raq3i hosting about 15 websites with low-to-moderate activity?  Any
> 
> At some point you will run into a limiting factor ... your web browser.
> I've successfully added up to about 2500 users on a Cobalt Qube2 but at
> around that point my web browser (netscape 4.5 [win32] at the time) was
> unable to store the form field with any more usernames and would crash when
> loading the list. If I tried to -send- more by cutting and pasting into the
> field when it was empty, Netscape only appeared to send about 2500 of them,
> truncating the rest.
> 
> Each browser is going to have different buffers setup for form fields, and
> each version of each browser may also be different.

Mozilla can probably handle it... Gecko owns large layouts and form
elements, etc.

But, I would say if you've got 17,000 people you're probably at the level
that you are going to need to be engineering a better solution.  Web
based-management may not be the best way to go.  Further, you're going to
have to deal with bounced messages, etc., at a much higher level...
especially if you are sending SPAM.

-k