On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote:
>>  According to The Powers That Be, the lag is due to an artificial limit
>> in *messages per unit of time* built-in to Lyris.
>
> I wonder how many people are subbed here?

  According to what Mr. Bittenbender wrote on 2012 JAN 18, NTSYSADMIN
then had 3489 subscribed addresses.

> 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 ...

  Well, for the sake of discussion: 175 * 3489 ~= 610K.

  There's also the Exchange list.

> 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.

  Again, the issue is rate limiting (messages per time) in the Lyris
software.  Adding more computrons won't make it go faster.

-- Ben

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