On Tuesday 29 January 2002 07:20 pm, you wrote: > Quoting Joel Rosenberg (joelr at ellegon.com): > > A 486, with maybe 16 meg of memory and a slow hard drive, ought to be > > more than ample, assuming (a fair assumption), that it's going to run > > some sort of standard mailing list software, like, say, mailman under > > Linux. We're talking about a mailing list, after all, that, on a busy > > day, has fewer than several dozen emails. > > Hmmm, no. > > The box does over 7Million hits a month on the web archives and with > pipermail you cannot seperate the list server from the archives. > > It push over 16gb of data a month via web. > > It processes 25,000 pieces of mail a day. I think we're discussing different things. By "We're talking about a mailing list, after all, that, on a busy day, has fewer than several dozen emails," I thought was discussing the requirements for a low-volume mailing list -- the TCLUG mailing list -- rather than everything that you've got this particular box doing, only a small percentage of which, manifestly, is the TCLUG mailing list. Unless I'm seriously mistaken about the number of folks on the TCLUG mailing list, I can't imagine that it's often in excess of a tiny fraction of that 25,000 pieces of mail a day, even if each copy of each mail sent out is considered a separate piece of mail. That said, there may well be advantages to having the mailing list on the same box as a machine that apparently does a lot of other things, including some TCLUG things, that outweigh the disadvantage of the slow, sodden pace of TCLUG mailing list responses.