Use Majordomo on a linux box. I am running lists with over 600 people with
no problem. List speed is excellent. It is FREE other than having a place
to host it.
DC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Fusebox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 11:47
Subject: Re: IRC? Why don't we tie a string between tin cans? :-)
> What about a linux solution? Those are generally free, and I've heard
> they're about 100 times more scalable than NT based listservs. Ask the
> folks on the cf-linux list, they'll know.
>
> Steve
>
> Michael Dinowitz wrote:
> >
> > True and CFHosting has been very supportive of the lists and other
resources
> > so getting more hardware/bandwidth shouldn't be any sort of problem.
Truth
> > be told, they slapped an additional 256 meg into the box just recently
and
> > they've been giving me basically unlimited bandwidth for a while now. If
I
> > start working with them as a consultant I'll probably even get a pass on
the
> > hosting charges. Add that to the free resources they're putting together
for
> > the CFUGs (some free hosting) and for the CFIDG (CF International
Developers
> > Guild) and you can see they're being great about it.
> > The issue is less the hardware than the software. I've written some
great
> > mailing code to patch what I consider holes in post.office. I'd love to
move
> > away from it but
> > 1. Lyris costs $4,500
> > 2. iMS dosn't have a finished listserver package.
> > I expect Howie'll have the listserver before I can get $4500 together.
:)
> >
> > > Wouldn't more hardware speed the list up? Hell, with 400 people on
our
> > > list, if we all kicked in $4-5 we could get another server to separate
> > > us from the cf-talk list! :)
> > >
> > > Would that work?
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > > Michael Dinowitz wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I received your message within 10 minutes of you sending it. You can
> > check
> > > > when it got through the server by going to the new archives at
> > > > www.houseoffusion.com/archive. I set up these archives both because
I've
> > > > been planing to and so people can see if and when their posts got
> > through
> > > > the server. I can say a million times that some posts get delayed
due to
> > > > internet and receiving server issues but people don't believe. Now
> > there's a
> > > > public record. :)
> > > > Of course, the list still does go down once in a while, but I've
tweaked
> > the
> > > > code on my monitor so it'll never be down for more than 10 minutes.
All
> > > > automatic now.
> > > >
> > > > > This list has gotten TERRIBLY slow... message sent at 6:38pm EST
only
> > > > > showing up at 8:20pm EST.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anybody know what's going on?
> > > > >
> > > > > TIA,
> > > > >
> > > > > Marc Funaro
> > > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Marc Funaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 6:28 PM
> > > > > To: Fusebox
> > > > > Subject: RE: IRC? Why don't we tie a string between tin cans? :-)
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > #fusebox
> > > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Greg Luce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 4:53 PM
> > > > > To: Fusebox
> > > > > Subject: IRC? Why don't we tie a string between tin cans? :-)
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm logged on to irc, but don't see anything about fusebox. Anyone
> > know
> > > > the
> > > > > "room name" or whatever. :-)
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: "Jeff Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > To: "Fusebox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 12:57 PM
> > > > > Subject: Re: #fusebox on irc.enterthegame.com
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > what's the active list number?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > > From: "Chris Chambers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > > To: "Fusebox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 12:40 PM
> > > > > > Subject: #fusebox on irc.enterthegame.com
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > OK, enough people have showed, so I registered the channel.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Please drop buy and come chat with us! We have already had
quite
> > a
> > > > few
> > > > > > > productive conversations!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Need a client?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > windows: www.mirc.com www.xircon.com
> > > > > > > nix: www.xchat.org www.bitchx.org
> > > > > > > mac: www.ircle.com
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > See ya there!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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