[Mailman-Users] Processing speed for huge lists

[Brad Knowles]

At 4:28 PM +0100 2004-10-22, Graham Cox wrote:

>  There are currently 6 main lists that are run on this server, 3 clients with
>  2 lists each, and they range in size from 45,000 in the smallest one to
>  almost 130,000 in the largest one.
>
>  Does anyone have any idea of the amount of time I'd expect it to take to
>  process and send this number of emails out on a decently optimized system?

	Have you seen 
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.015.htp>?

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