[Mailman-Users] how many mailman subscribers?

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Thu Dec 8 22:30:18 CET 2005


At 3:58 PM -0500 2005-12-08, <smielke at famsi.org> wrote:

>  How many users (subscribers) can Mailman handle? It's been suggested to
>  me that if you have over 1500 users, that one should consider using
>  L-Soft's Listserv.  Can anyone comment on there experience with Mailman
>  and how many users it can handle?

	See the Mailman FAQ Wizard.  In short, it can easily handle over 
100,000 users, on the right machine with the right hardware and 
software configuration, depending on their communication traffic 
patterns.

	But there's a lot more info on this subject in the FAQ.

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     Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755

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