Hi Clara!
I run a list of around 18,000 members and processing was a real big problem. Not only the time involved, but duplicates being sent by majordomo, etc. I wasn't able to get bulk_mailer to work on my server (long story, not relevant here) so we had to come up with other ways to handle the problem.
We came up with this solution:
NOTE: Our list was a newsletter and not a discussion list. I don't know how this would work with a discussion list.
We broke the list down into 5 lists.
The main list only has 4 subscribers. Those 4 subscribers are list1, list2, list3 and list4.
So the user file for the main list (mainlist@mydomain.com) is:
list1@mydomain.com
list2@mydomain.com
list3@mydomain.com
list4@mydomain.com
To make subscribe and unsubscribe easier each list is a certain alphabetical range. In the footer of each list I put a link to an unsubscribe web page unique to that list. My client prefers to add each email because they want to screen users so I built an interface for them to subscribe each email addy to the proper list.
We've had no problems at all. The list runs in about 2 hours.
Hugs!
Sharon Flanagan
The Family Connection
http://www.family-connection.net
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On 12/18/00, at 12:44 AM, Lala Paulino wrote:
>Hello,
>
>We installed version 1.94.5 and just sent email to a
>list of 20,000 recipients... it's been 2 days and it's
>still running. Can majordomo really handle this
>volume? I've heard about bulk_mailer... is it really
>good?
>
>Thanks,
>Clara Paulino
>
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