It appears that only this list and the Exchange list are the active lists,
too, according to the GFI website.  At one point I was part of an SQL and
AD list hosted on the Sunbelt site.

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]>wrote:

> I wonder how many people are subbed here? (I've asked lyris for a
> command card to see if I can tell, but who knows when it will
> respond...)
>
> By a quick reckoning, the high water mark for list msgs last week
> (including BBQ sauce and Cynicalgeek threads) was about 175 posts.
>
> My little diversion list did somewhere near 450 posts today, which is in
> near 25K  outbound msgs totaling ~1.5GB
>
> Now certainly his list could have 1,000 members or something... but I'm
> running on a  relatively modest VM on modest hardware in the server
> closet in my basement, but it's hardly even breaking a sweat. I bet I
> could do 100-200K messages a day without much problem.
>
> I'd expect a place like Sunbelt/GFI should have the resources to do far
> more than that...
>
> -sc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 10:32 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Good SBS list
>
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:18 AM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I experience the same, if I post before 9am local (Pacific) it's
> > pretty quick, if it's much after that, it's 50/50 I see it in the next
>
> > 10 minutes, or six hours.
>
>  According to The Powers That Be, the lag is due to an artificial limit
> in *messages per unit of time* built-in to Lyris.  So it only happens if
> a lot of people are posting.  It thus varies by time of day (more list
> members are posting during US business hours, it seems) as well as the
> overall traffic volume.  Thus a reduction in arguments about
> beer/language/etc also helps.
>
> -- Ben
>
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