[PLUG] large email list 100K - 1 million

[Josh Orchard]

Auke Kok wrote:
> 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?
>
> for anything of this size, and assuming that your list will most 
> likely be 1-way directed traffic only, I would not use a ML manager at 
> all but setup a webfrontend for subscribing/unsubscribing connected to 
> something like mysql, and just run a script to post announcements.
>
> I doubt that you want to archive all the returning traffic :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Auke
>
Good thought.  I'll consider that.  Thanks.