[Asterisk-Users] Mailing List Lag

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Thursday 22 January 2004 14:04, WipeOut wrote:
> Christian Hoffmeyer wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Steve Foy" <steve at unite.net>
>
> >To: "Asterisk-Users" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> >Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 3:18 AM
> >Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Mailing List Lag
> >
> >>On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 08:39:09AM +0000, Steve Foy wrote:
> >>>I'd be willing to host the list, I guess it just depends on how
> >>> many emails/day the Asterisk list goes through...
> >>
> >>Seems to be around 1200 emails per week, for the one week that I
> >> counted anyway...
> >
> >Last week I was complaining to John, at Digium, about the list lag. 
> > Mark walked by his office so John voiced my complaint.  Mark then
> > said that the mailing list does 9 million messages a day.
>
> I have got 685 mails in the last 5 days, that works out to 137 per
> day..
>
> Lets make it 150 per day since the last 5 days includes a Sunday..
>
> 9000000 mails / 150 per day = 60000 Subscribers..
>
> Is the Asterisk community anywhere near that big??
>
> I am not disagreeing with Mark, its his server, it just seems that 9
> million per day is a little high..

I'd believe that the mail server handles that many messages.  Consider
that all messages are handled twice:  once coming in, thousands of times
out.  Add to that the number of bounces and mail delayed messages, due
to various mailing servers being down.  Now also, don't forget that
Digium has a dozen or more people with email accounts, each of whom
probably deal with hundreds of messages a day.  Also don't forget that
the mail server has to deal with spam, especially since there's quite a
few digium.com addresses which are publically displayed.  That adds up
to quite a lot of messages.

And given any mailing list for a community, it is probable that the vast
majority of those subscribed NEVER post to the list.  While it tends to
be the same group of people who respond to questions, the new users
asking questions seems to be different every week.

-Tilghman