[PLUG] large email list 100K - 1 million

[alan]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Josh Orchard wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I was recently asked to give an opinion about what email list would handle 
> large mailings.  They were purposing 100K to 1 Million people on the list. 
> It would be an announcement list.  I have used Mailman with great results but 
> only into the small thousands.  I've searched around but have yet to find 
> anything that compares different mailing list like Mailman/PHPList/Majordomo 
> or any other mailing list. 
> So,  is there anyone on the list who could point me towards a comparison or 
> give their opinions on which one would be a good mailing list to handle this 
> capacity?

Are you sure these guys are not spammers?

I have used majordomo with lists of about 20,000+. I have never seen a 
legitimate list that big.

The problem is not the listserv software, the problem is having the 
bandwidth and running out of system resources.  (I hacked a custom kernel 
back when I ran perl5porters to handle high volume, but that was back in 
the days when you needed to. The system used to run out of filehandles 
back in the 1.2.x kernels.)

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