I have to completely agree! we use Majordomo on our sun boxes and it manages
14 different lists with probably 50,000 subscribers and does it without any
issues.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 1:29 PM
To: Fusebox
Subject: RE: IRC? Why don't we tie a string between tin cans? :-)
It has been suggested a few times that Majordomo be used
or any other free listserv software in the *nix world...
It is relatively straightforward to setup using Sendmail as
the MTA..
Lyris is very expensive and Majordomo at least rivals
Lyris in almost every category..
It shouldnt take more than a day to set up Majordomo and tweak it
and get a test list going and then tweak from there.
All of this has already been suggested.
More hardware? A p200 with 64MB of ram could handle the volume
of all the lists HOF maintains rather easily, it is purely a
bandwidth, software thing since the hardware would be relatively
cheap.
Support.. has to be better or equal with Major domo because this
listserv package dies a lot for things it probably shouldnt and
there seem to be no fixes for this.....
No its not a complaint just a fact of life.
Majordomo or any of the free listserv packages serve MUCH higher
traffic lists than this, they are proven software etc.. I am guessing
that Michael wishes to avoid anything but a NT solution tho.
I suppose the main problem is it takes a lot of time to set everything
up under a Unix when you are not at all familiar with it. Anyhow...
It *IS* realtively easy one you know.. :)
My .02
Jeremy Allen
elliptIQ Inc.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 11:48 AM
>To: Fusebox
>Subject: Re: IRC? Why don't we tie a string between tin cans? :-)
>
>
>What about a linux solution? Those are generally free, and I've heard
>they're about 100 times more scalable than NT based listservs. Ask the
>folks on the cf-linux list, they'll know.
>
>Steve
>
>Michael Dinowitz wrote:
>>
>> True and CFHosting has been very supportive of the lists and
>other resources
>> so getting more hardware/bandwidth shouldn't be any sort of
>problem. Truth
>> be told, they slapped an additional 256 meg into the box just
>recently and
>> they've been giving me basically unlimited bandwidth for a while
>now. If I
>> start working with them as a consultant I'll probably even get a
>pass on the
>> hosting charges. Add that to the free resources they're putting
>together for
>> the CFUGs (some free hosting) and for the CFIDG (CF
>International Developers
>> Guild) and you can see they're being great about it.
>> The issue is less the hardware than the software. I've written some great
>> mailing code to patch what I consider holes in post.office. I'd
>love to move
>> away from it but
>> 1. Lyris costs $4,500
>> 2. iMS dosn't have a finished listserver package.
>> I expect Howie'll have the listserver before I can get $4500 together. :)
>>
>> > Wouldn't more hardware speed the list up? Hell, with 400 people on our
>> > list, if we all kicked in $4-5 we could get another server to separate
>> > us from the cf-talk list! :)
>> >
>> > Would that work?
>> >
>> > Steve
>> >
>> > Michael Dinowitz wrote:
>> > >
>> > > I received your message within 10 minutes of you sending it. You can
>> check
>> > > when it got through the server by going to the new archives at
>> > > www.houseoffusion.com/archive. I set up these archives both
>because I've
>> > > been planing to and so people can see if and when their posts got
>> through
>> > > the server. I can say a million times that some posts get
>delayed due to
>> > > internet and receiving server issues but people don't believe. Now
>> there's a
>> > > public record. :)
>> > > Of course, the list still does go down once in a while, but
>I've tweaked
>> the
>> > > code on my monitor so it'll never be down for more than 10
>minutes. All
>> > > automatic now.
>> > >
>> > > > This list has gotten TERRIBLY slow... message sent at
>6:38pm EST only
>> > > > showing up at 8:20pm EST.
>> > > >
>> > > > Anybody know what's going on?
>> > > >
>> > > > TIA,
>> > > >
>> > > > Marc Funaro
>> > > >
>> > > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > > From: Marc Funaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> > > > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 6:28 PM
>> > > > To: Fusebox
>> > > > Subject: RE: IRC? Why don't we tie a string between tin cans? :-)
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > #fusebox
>> > > >
>> > > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > > From: Greg Luce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> > > > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 4:53 PM
>> > > > To: Fusebox
>> > > > Subject: IRC? Why don't we tie a string between tin cans? :-)
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > I'm logged on to irc, but don't see anything about fusebox. Anyone
>> know
>> > > the
>> > > > "room name" or whatever. :-)
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > ----- Original Message -----
>> > > > From: "Jeff Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > > > To: "Fusebox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > > > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 12:57 PM
>> > > > Subject: Re: #fusebox on irc.enterthegame.com
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > > what's the active list number?
>> > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
>> > > > > From: "Chris Chambers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > > > > To: "Fusebox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > > > > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 12:40 PM
>> > > > > Subject: #fusebox on irc.enterthegame.com
>> > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > > > OK, enough people have showed, so I registered the channel.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Please drop buy and come chat with us! We have
>already had quite
>> a
>> > > few
>> > > > > > productive conversations!
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Need a client?
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > windows: www.mirc.com www.xircon.com
>> > > > > > nix: www.xchat.org www.bitchx.org
>> > > > > > mac: www.ircle.com
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > See ya there!
>> > > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>>
>
>
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