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

["Worldwide Beauty Store Staff" <email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You wrote:
>>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.

I operate huge e-commerce retail store and our mailing list is way over
17,000 - try triple that.  In order to prevent time outs - we download (via
FTP) the entire list onto our pc and then divide it into fifths.  We then
send each part up to the server one at a time and end up doing five
"mini-mailings" so we can reach the entire list.  We then reassemble the
list in total and shoot 'er back up to the server.  This is a little time
consuming, but is a successful, albeit, rough work-around.  If ther is a
better solution, I, like Ross Perot, am all ears.

-Max
The guy would couldn't get laid at a womens' prison while retaining a
fistfull of pardons...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kris Dahl" <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] 17,000 member email list


> 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
>
>
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