Re: Re: mailing list managers

on 14/08/02 4:00 AM, Manuel Lemos (mlemos@acm.org) wrote: > Hello, > > On 08/13/2002 12:09 PM, Justin French wrote: >> Just a quick note to see if anyone has any experience with mailing list >> managers. >> >> I've currently got a DB of subscribers, and basic PHP scripts are not going >> to be a good long-term solution. >> >> I was hoping that maybe there's an opensource or commercial product out >> there that I can install in my doc root (ie, PHP + MySQL support) which will >> handle this in a more effective manner (ie, space the mailout across an hour >> or so, etc etc). > > You can do all in PHP if you do things more efficiently. One thing that > you should avoid at all costs is personalization. Once you do that, you > can just queue a single message to all subscribers, instead one per > subscriber. Doesn't pose issues with some spam filters looking for obvious stuff like 2000 names in the Bcc header? > Another point is to have a DBM like database just to cache the > subscribers addresses. Such databases are much faster to query than MySQL. By the same token, is a CSV file faster? Justin French