Re: puzzled

So you are saying the server is crippled, since as a list server goes, this
list is not that big?

Aa a designer of ISPs when the work is available.  A used Sun Sparc 20 with
24,000 users in one list handles a mailing every 4 minutes and recycles the
list for new messages every 10 minutes.

That is every single user goes out in 4 minutes per list.

With over 40 lists on the Sun 20 for a total of 90,000 users at the first
ISP I worked for did this day in and day out without a glitch.

Is this list Windows based.

At 8:56 AM -0500 7/2/02, Hank Marquardt wrote:
>Some of the lists are quite big and occasionally the list server bogs
>down, so what happens is the folks at the 'top' of the list get messages
>much quicker than those at the bottom -- your comment makes me think
>you're further down in the list -- so the folks that start to get the
>message early respond (many by replying to *group* -- original sender
>and the list) ... so you receive direct replies before many people have
>seen the original post ...
>
>On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 08:24:34AM -0500, Dusty wrote:
>> Hello......
>>
>> I have been getting responses to questions before the questions themselves
>> (sometimes hours before). It makes it hard to follow a discussion thread
>> when that happens.
>>
>> Dusty
>>
>>
>
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