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Subject: Re: Which?
From: alan @ znyx . com (Alan Deikman)
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 11:11:35 -0700 (PDT)
To: list-managers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <0012e9c125e028294@epx.cis.umn.edu> from "jkg@epx.cis.umn.edu" at Oct 12, 94 11:44:13 am


> I am looking for a product that would process class
> lists here at the University. Initially, we would 
> like to handle perhaps 500 lists of varying lengths-
> maybe 20-100 members.

Wow!  500 Lists?  Let me guess -- one list for each class
UoM offers.

I hope you realize that this will be a full time job no matter
what list manager you use.

> Does anyone have any suggestions or thoughts on this?

I was just putting up my first mailing list, and was just about
convinced to go with majordomo.  Then some poster on this list
advised me to look at SmartMail.  

To make a long story short, we went with SmartMail/procmail.

There are a number of feature differences between the two, but
what did it for me is that SmartMail/procmail does not require perl,
and was much lighter on our system resources.  We host on a piddling
386 system with 16MB running ISC UNIX, but with SmartMail/procmail
I think we could handle thousands of subscribers with no problem.


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