>
> WC server is still underperforming and inconsistent .....
> both were copied to the Onelist temporary list - and received w/in 1
minute after "sending"
I got just a few e-mails Saturday. (Wonder if this foul up is related
to that new MS Word "virus" that e-mails itself to others when you open
the attachment. That has the potential of knocking down the whole
internet just the way a similar work knocked down IBM's worldwide network
for two days in the 1980's.)
If we are about 3,000 on the list, that means the machine hosting this
list has to process 3,000 e-mails for each post. Times, say, a hundred a
day from this list, that's 300,000 e-mails. (I am guessing on how many
members, and how many e-mails; but let's use these numbers as an example.)
1 email ------> Only Server =====> 3,000 e-mails
100 100 in 300,000 out total 300,000/day
Single E-Mail List Server
Now look at the advantage of using 30 regional satellite e-mail lists
(each on a regional computer,) subscribed to a central list:
-- 1 --> satellite #1 == 100 ==>
sender -- 1 --> server -- 1 --> Central -- 1 --> ...
-- 1 --> satellite #30 == 100 ==>
100 posts 100 in, 3,000 out 100 in, 10,000 out,
Total daily delivery: 300,000
With a distributed list setup as per above, the central list machine
only has to handle 30,000 pieces of e-mail in order to service the 3000
subscribers with the total of 300,000 pieces of e-mail.
Another advantage is that the satellites are all processing e-mails
at the same time, multiplying the effective power of the central server by
over 30 fold! Thus delays for those at the end of the list may be
substantially less than would be found had all mail delivery been
attempted by a single centralized e-mail server.
All you need, is one central mailing list that has subscriptions to
satellite mailing lists. Kathy, that would mean your one-list members
would un-subscribe from the web-consultants list, and you would subscribe
your one-list mailing list to the central list with the "no-echo" or "no
confirmation copy" option. That is, _IF_ we decide to do it this way.
Rich K, you are the systems guru here, what do you think? George,
you run some of your own mailing lists, what do you think? Any other good
sysadmin types on this list?
Am I missing something, or is it as easy as I think it is? What is
the downside of this distributed list idea?
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