[PLUG] Re: large email list 100K - 1 million

[alan]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

>>>>>> "Auke" == Auke Kok <sofar at foo-projects.org> writes:
>
> Auke> for anything of this size, and assuming that your list will most likely
> Auke> be 1-way directed traffic only, I would not use a ML manager at all but
> Auke> setup a webfrontend for subscribing/unsubscribing connected to something
> Auke> like mysql, and just run a script to post announcements.
>
> Yeah, can you imagine a *discussion* list with 1 million subscribers?
>
> Q. How do I $X ?
>
> 472,000 answers: you take $Y and put it into the $Z!
> 212,000 answers: remove $P before taking $Y and inserting into $W
> 108,000 followups to those answers: No silly, it's $Z now, not $W
>
> That'd be pretty insane. :)

That sounds like p5p or the kernel list. ]:>

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