At 05:13 PM 5/31/97 -0700, Kynn Bartlett wrote:
>At 05:30 PM 5/31/97 -0500, Christopher Knight wrote:
>>We invested about 5000+ man-hours of programming into it over the last 9
>>months, [...]
>
>Woah, that's a lotta work -- the equivalent of three people
>working full time (40 hours a week) for over 10 months!
Yep. ....except our crew usually works 55-75 hours a week, because they
are just as crazy as I am....and maybe some of you on this list. :)
>Just out of curiousity -- if you had that much time to
>devote to this project -- why not write something completely
>new and better from scratch? No offense to the people who
>have worked on Majordomo or are working on it now -- but I
>get the feeling that Majordomo 1.* code is not necessarily
>the best place to start (witness Jason's complete rewrite
>for Mj ][).
>So, like, why not create a completely new product with a
>completely new name, anyway? [Call it 'sparklist' or
>something -- and you could also resell your code for whatever
>you can get for it, too.]
Bingo. :-)
-Chris
ps: Our biggest challenge is 3 areas:
1. Throughput. We need to achieve 100,000 emails delivered per 5 minutes,
and then I will be satisfied (this year). We're no where near that today.
2. Bouncing technology. We've got easily 300+ hours in this with no
strong solution yet.
3. CONFIRM process needs to work more like listserv, than domo. It's just
way to complicated for a novice. This of course means a complete re-write
of resend and other parts of this program.
So, basically, I want Listserv's performance with Domo's flexibility. A
pipe dream? I dont't think so. :].....but it won't come cheap.
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