Re: Workload for managing large majordomo lists?

From: Allen Chang <allen_at_rescomp.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu Dec 11 2003 - 00:01:42 PST

It'll depend heavily on the number of messages being sent each week, what
kind of correspondence you'll have and what interface you're using to
manage majordomo. I'm currently managing a 1,700 user majordomo list that
has monthly or bi-monthly newsletters through UCLink web interface.

Setting it up wasn't pretty but managing it is easy. I have all the email
address in alphabetical order so if any of them bounce, I can find it
and remove it easily.

Learning how to approve messages or send pre-approved messages proved to
be much more frustrating than expected. Even though I had previous
majordomo experience, I found that the UCLink implementation didn't work
as documented (or as expected). This hopefully changes when CalMail is
implemented.

Short answer: <1 hour per mailing after initial setup.

If you want to know about a high-volume, high-user list, you should
contact the owner of mcb-students. However, I believe that it is
unmoderated.

@llen

~---------------------------------~
           Allen Chang
 Lead Network Security Coordinator
  Office of Residential Computing
           UC Berkeley
~---------------------------------~

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Sara Leavitt wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I've been asked to come up with an estimate of how much time would
> take to manage a large 2-3K subscription open/posting moderated
> majordomo list. This would include periodically purging the list of
> bad (bounced) addresses and corresponding with members. Can anyone
> with a large list give me a ballpark estimate of how many hours per
> week or per mailing it takes to manage?
>
> Thanks, Sara

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