Becky- I'm glad to hear your list woes are resolved. I'm still working to
resolve mine. The problem with most ASPs is they either won't touch my
list, or they want to charge me an arm and a leg (had two quotes for $1000
per *month*!) Here's the breakdown on my list:
about 1,000 total subscribers
~350 real-time subscribers
~650 digest subscribers
average of 106 messages per day
average of 6.7 digests per day
I use a character limit of 5,000 on individual messages, so they never
exceed 6KB in size
Digests are kicked off every 20,000 characters
To reduce bandwith, I only allow straight text, no HTML and no attachments
Note that the content is NOT commercial or adult in nature (we talk cars)
Most ASPs I've been talking to count the total number of messages by
multiplying the montly messages by the number of subscribers. In my case,
that's over 1,000,000 per month, and they aren't discounting for my
bandwidth-saving measures. Help! I either want to find a really rockin'
ASP that I can afford long-term -or- just a temporary home until I complete
a permenant move to my server. Note that I currently use majordomo, but am
open to more powerful options. Thank you for your suggestions.
Regards,
Andrew P. Tasi
-The only good Topica is an offline Topica
