RE: [PHP] Mailling Lists
| From: | Mark Charette | Date: | Thu, 27 Dec 2001 06:21:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Mailling Lists | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bogdan Stancescu [mailto:mgv@fx.ro]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 11:16 PM
> To: Ben Clumeck
> Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Mailling Lists
>
>
> I'm really unable to discuss the mailing-list topic because I
> have nil expertise
> in this field (apart from using them, that is). However, I'd
> strongly advise you
> to use something based on some kind of database system, because alternate
> methods of storing data (i.e. plain text files) are crippled from
> the start in
> the speed department -- and if you hope the list to grow, this
> will become a
> major issue.
Interestingly enough, the largest mailing list systems do not use databases
to store their addresses. The likely limit will be bandwidth, not anything
else.
Look into qmail/ezmlm for a good combination, along with the tied & true
majordomo list manager. I've been running some large mailing lists using the
ezmlm/qmail combo - which easily saturates a T1 connection running just a
350 MHz PII.