I will be setting up a mailing list server this month with approximately
40 lists, 50-100 subscribers each (I have a new Pentium Pro 200mhz
dedicated for the service) and I am still, after much research, stuck on a
fence between Majordomo and SmartList.
As I understand it, SmartList is easier on system resources. It has been
told to be that for EVERY message that comes into MajorDomo a new
majordomo is called into memory to handle it, and a new perl program to
handle the scripts.
It has also been told that SmartList only keeps on copy of itself in
memory for each mailing list - regardless of queued messages. With nearly
20000 messages (anticipated) being distributed, calling 20000 majordomos
into memory each day would kill even a Pentium Pro 200mhz system!
How ever - Majordomo is clearly the advance leader in free mailing list
software in it's remote administration features, digest features, and has
much fewer bugs.
I would be willing to make that trade off (SmartList over MajorDomo) if I
could prove that SmartList handled system resources better that Majordomo.
Any thoughts on this?
Andy
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