On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 12:47:08PM +0000, Peter Kobak wrote:
> predict sending an average of around 20k messages per day, with peaks
> of up to 120k messages in a single day, and up to 70k messages in one
> chunk.
> ...current customers, so we can make a pretty good prediction of the
> volume to be going to larger ISPs. (Not surprisingly, AOL is by far
> the largest single ISP.)
Presumably, you expect to be sending (in the 20k example), say, 20
messages to 1000 people or 1 message to 20000 people rather than the
other extreme of 20000 messages to 1 person. If so, then a mailing list
that operates along the lines of majordomo & sendmail will have a far
smaller impact than you might imagine. Sending a single 50k email
message to 1000 AOL subscribers, for instance, will result in only one
50k message plus a list of 1000 addresses being sent to the AOL MTA,
rather than 1000 50k messages each with one address.
If this is the case, then the sort of figures you are talking about are
quite normal and shouldn't cause too many problems.
Nick
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