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

[Steven Werby <steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Geoff Baysinger 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.

As an alternative don't use the GUI and add the email addresses directly
to the file containing the list of addresses (one per line, no commas
needed).  Then you can store a nearly-infinite # of addresses.  You can
certainly get around whatever form field byte limit is imposed by a
browser by avoiding the browser.  If you need a GUI for adding addresses
write one that does not list all of the existing addresses in a single
<textarea> element.  It's not like that's useful anyway (if that's what
Cobalt's GUI does) for large lists since you'd never be able to find an
address to remove anyway.

<sarcasm for those following earlier thread on Wildcard DNS>Oh yeah, give
me $$$ and I can build you a GUI that does whatever you
want.</sarcasm for those following earlier thread on Wildcard DNS>

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Steven Werby {steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx}