i will say when our company used Major Domo it was totally horrible but it
might have been the volume of mails and the # of member son the lists.
Thats why we use listserv now
Bill Wheatley
Director of Development
Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer
AEPS INC
Allaire ColdFusion Consulting Partner
www.aeps.com
www.aeps2000.com
954-472-6684 X303
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Johnson, Russ " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Fusebox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 3:27 PM
Subject: RE: IRC? Why don't we tie a string between tin cans? :-)
> 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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