List traffic, Weee!

[Brett Dikeman]

At 12:03 PM -0800 12/2/03, Jim Green wrote:
>Judging by the amount of work I've done over the last
>week, I'd say list traffic has got to be at one of the
>highest volumes I've seen in a long time.

Today was absolutely by far the busiest day since the move- peak and 
average rates were much higher. Everyone's back from vacation and 
catching up, I suppose.  In a week or two we'll have a better idea of 
what 'typical' will be(we just started monitoring email volume 
recently) although it's still the holidays.  I think today we topped 
out at about 1177 emails per minute, and sent a total of 86,000 
emails in the last 24 hours.

Whereas I'd get a message within 5-10 minutes with the old system, I 
usually get my posts back within a minute.  This should cut down on 
confusion some.  Lags, when they get bad enough, hurt conversation 
because you end up with duplicate answers and such.

>   This new server kicks ass, thanks Dan!

Thank your fellow listers who contributed the funds to make the 
purchase possible, and thank Cervalis for employing Dan and 
continuing to give us enterprise-class hosting for free.

Brett
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