At 6:57 PM -0800 2005-01-21, JC Dill wrote:
Also consider if your list will need more than one single moderator, and remember to set new members to moderated status by default - it's *much* better to change them to unmoderated after you see that they have clue than to have to set them to moderated after they have posted one or more "Hey, that's cool!" posts back to the whole list.
One other note -- watch your maximum message size that you allow to be posted to the list, as well as the attachments and MIME bodypart types.
If you have a list of 250 company employees, and some moron in marketing sends a 50MB PowerPoint presentation to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, that works out to about 12GB of disk storage that you have to suddenly find to store all 250 copies of that 50MB attachment, and a hell of a lot of disk I/O to write all that out at once.
I worked at a local ISP that had a mail server for 250,000 customers that was completely nuked in this way by one of our own marketing dweebs, and the machine only had something like 8GB of disk space free. The entire mail server was down for hours as I tried to clean things up and to purge all the bogus copies of that presentation.
You can imagine how upset all the 250,000 customers were that the mail server was down.
Trust me, you don't want to have this happen to you.
-- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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