[Mailman-Users] Commercial hosting for Mailman lists?

[Eric S. Johansson]

At 01:39 AM 10/1/1999 , Brian Mulvaney wrote:
>P.S.  If I were to run Mailman in house (literally in my house) I'd have to
>contend with a line speed of 128k to the net.  I'm wondering if this would
>pose a troublesome bottleneck and would love feedback from anyone running
>Mailman across 128k ISDN.

I run a series of mailman lists off of a 28.8 modem.  For the most part 
it's not a big deal.  Granted, most of my lists are fairly low activity 
but, we do get the occasional tempest in a teapot which means the mail 
queue fills up for a couple of hours as everyone busily swaps messages and 
then it calms down as they realize they're talking past each other.

If you are running a very active list, I suggest making friends with your 
ISP and asking very nicely for permission to relay through their mail 
host.  If you get the ok, then the loading on your line should be minimal.

--- eric


Eric S Johansson	esj at inguide.com	  esj at harvee.billerica.ma.us
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