On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Ken Manheimer wrote:
Hi, all. I'm going to be presenting a paper on mailman at the python conference in a couple of weeks, and i'd like to be able to answer the inevitable questions along the lines of, "how big a list is being run with mailman?" So i'd like to hear from you if you think you have some really big lists, or an otherwise interesting situation where you're using mailman.
Ok, I did a rough check, and lists.integral.org has approx 1000distinct addresses distributed over 6 lists, with the largest being a net-fiction list with 660 subscribers. That list receives 20-45 posts per day. Also, since it is a story list, most of the posts are stories avg'g 20 - 40KB.
Our most impressive stat is our web-archives, since the backarchives of two long running lists were added into the mailman archives when the lists were converted to mailman. The web-archives contain a total of 300MB, consisting of 36,000 messages.
-The Dragon De Monsyne