On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 08:00:50PM -0600, Edward S. Marshall wrote:
# On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Richard Letts wrote:
# > note, this speedup only occurs where you have multiple recipients at a
# > site; for most lists I'm member of a site typically only have one member
# > on the list anyway and the difference is negligible.
#
# Get ahold of the subscriber list for any large (several thousand
# subscriber) non-computer-related list, and count the number of addresses
# which end up with a final delivery to iName (which constitutes a huge
# number of domains), Hotmail, Juno, AOL, MSN, or CompuServe. You'd be
# amazed.
#
# This is from direct experience assisting in the management of a large list
# (a list for dog owners), not from being a list member. All you see, as a
# member, is the people who post. Not the lurkers, whose numbers can be in
# the thousands.
#
let's see
we have three mailing lists for the Frommer's budget travel site,
www.frommers.com
of the 60+K we have a list setup just for AOL users
ezmlm-list ~lists/frommers-aol/ | grep -i aol.com | wc -l
13600
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