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[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

That's a reasonnable request, I guess.
I added it to the feature requests. We'll see how it matches in our 
development plans.

Thanks for reporting this need!

David

Micah Anderson a écrit :
> I know that the original question was more about if large lists were
> possible, but I have a related feature request. 
>
> It would be really nice if it were possible to set a per-list subscriber
> limit. This could be set in sympa.conf as a global default, and then it
> could be overidden per list, by a list admin (similar to max posting
> sizes). This which would keep lists from having any more subscribers
> added over this limit. 
>
> Because we provide lists to people, we frequently have people get a list
> and then subscribe thousands of people, most who should not be
> subscribed, and then are able to send out messages before we are alerted
> to the problem and can stop it. By this time, the damage has been
> done. If there was a configurable limit, then we would limit this
> damage, and have a more measured control over the subscription numbers.
>
> micah
>
> * David Verdin <address@concealed> [2009-04-23 08:41-0400]:
>   
> > For now, there is no known limit to the subscriber count for a list.  
> > There are few data associated to each user, so event with the full list  
> > loaded in memory, it doesn't weight much.
> > Now, you must take into account the distribution load, according to how  
> > quick your mail server is. Lists of more than 10 000 subscribers, are  
> > often mùoderated, so that you can validate the message distributino in  
> > the evening or whenever the load is low on your mail server.
> >
> > I recently heard of a list with near 120 000 subscribers. It doesn't  
> > seem to be a problem.
> >
> > Note that Sympa 6 introduces nightly sending : you will be able to set a  
> > time when the message will be sent, every day, for certain lists.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Wen Si a écrit :
> >     
> > > Hi,
> > > Is there anyone know what the max subscriber of each list is?
> > > I am going to create a list with 80,000 subscribers. I don't know  
> > > whether sympa can handle it.
> > >
> > > Thank you. Sincerely, Wen Si
> > >
> > >
> > >
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