On Mon, 11 May 1998, Olwen Williams wrote:
> Someone on this list mentioned onelist.com as being the best of the
> free list providers. I've heard it suggested that mail generally
> takes about 8 hrs to be delivered. It this true? Can anyone
> suggest a good value supplier? My obesity surgery support list has
> about 250 members and up to 200 messages a day.
250 subscribers times 200 messages is 50,000 messages sent per day. I
would guess that most charity list service providers would not want to
handle such a busy list.
In most cases, a respectable mailing list server will do it's part of
the email distribution in well under an hour. How long it takes
before the email actually arrives at it's final destination is
impossible to predict. Some subscribers receive their email via slow
and or erratic connections.
You may want to check the following list of providers and do some
comparisons. A gent named Brian Edmonds maintains a list of mailing
list service providers. Some of these providers do not charge. Some
charge very modest fees.
- http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/edmonds/usenet/ml-providers.txt
- send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following
line in the body of the message: get faq ml-providers.txt
If you provide mailing list host services and would like to be listed,
contact Brian Edmonds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
- murr -
