thanks for the info. Will have to look at listar, too.
> As I said, it's just one of my personal quirks that I don't like running
> large-volume mailing lists as interpreted scripts. I watched someone run
> a Majordomo list with 1900 users that got 80 posts a day, and it flattened
> his machine... that was one of the reasons I decided to write Listar in C.
My experience, FWIW, is that the interpreted aspects of the server
rarely are the problem. Majordomo doesn't scale well to large lists,
but mostly because it's spending its time whacking at flat text files
(and I don't care how fast your language or server is, you can only
grep through a text file so fast...). heck, I used to run a busier
site tham the 1900/80 on a 68K box years ago.
The big performance areas are the update I/O and delivery overhead.
Both swamp whatever overhead the server language might cause... In my
personal opinion, of course. No reason NOt to use C or C++, but I've
got a modified version of majordomo running pretty well with well
over a million subscribers. And it'll get even better once I fully
get MySQL implemented on the back end (right now, we're only driving
unsubscribes from the database, and feeding commands into majordomo.
Soon, we'll simply be removing majordomo and driving it all with
custom code)
> So, my PERSONAL opinion, between the two, is that I like Sympa better -
> largely because it's closer to my own philosophy of how a mailing list
> package should work, albeit with the one (to my mind) flaw of being
> written in Perl.
thanks. My 30 minute quick-lookover leans in the same direction, but
I'd really love to run into folks who've used the servers and see how
they run in the real world, before I choose one to start kicking the
tires with...
And, FWIW, the python/perl thing bothers me, too. Gee, just what I
want to do -- learn yet another programming language.... (grin)
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