biggest practical mailman list?
I'm using Mailman now for a small mailing list, less than 1000 addresses so far. A friend of mine needs to move a large list, over 32K addresses, to something new. I've been talking up Mailman, but began to wonder if there are scale issues with Mailman. Has anyone run a list that big? Does the database bog down loading a huge flat file for every request? Are there integer size limitations? My friend's current mailing list's editor broke with more than 2^15 addresses!
John
-- John Harkin Internet Network and Systems Consulting jh@harkin.net voice: 415-472-2452 fax: 415-472-2454
The largest list I know of to date is about a 3k discussion list. I've got a couple of 2k lists, and am about to add 24k list, but I think anticipate problems with the membership management section with this list.
The membership management section is a bit sluggish, but still functional for my 2-3k sized lists. Redoing this to handle larger lists is high on my priorities, needless to say :)
scott
On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 04:18:20PM -0800, John Harkin wrote: | I'm using Mailman now for a small mailing list, less than 1000 addresses so | far. A friend of mine needs to move a large list, over 32K addresses, to | something new. I've been talking up Mailman, but began to wonder if there | are scale issues with Mailman. Has anyone run a list that big? Does the | database bog down loading a huge flat file for every request? Are there | integer size limitations? My friend's current mailing list's editor broke | with more than 2^15 addresses! | | John | | -- | John Harkin | Internet Network and Systems Consulting | jh@harkin.net voice: 415-472-2452 fax: 415-472-2454 | | | | ------------------------------------------------------ | Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users@python.org | http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users |
The largest list I know of to date is about a 3k discussion list. I've got a couple of 2k lists, and am about to add 24k list, but I think anticipate problems with the membership management section with this list.
The membership management section is a bit sluggish, but still functional for my 2-3k sized lists. Redoing this to handle larger lists is high on my priorities, needless to say :)
scott
On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 04:18:20PM -0800, John Harkin wrote: | I'm using Mailman now for a small mailing list, less than 1000 addresses so | far. A friend of mine needs to move a large list, over 32K addresses, to | something new. I've been talking up Mailman, but began to wonder if there | are scale issues with Mailman. Has anyone run a list that big? Does the | database bog down loading a huge flat file for every request? Are there | integer size limitations? My friend's current mailing list's editor broke | with more than 2^15 addresses! | | John | | -- | John Harkin | Internet Network and Systems Consulting | jh@harkin.net voice: 415-472-2452 fax: 415-472-2454 | | | | ------------------------------------------------------ | Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users@python.org | http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users |
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