>I think it is time to plan for dealing with audiences in the 1000s, where
>conventional listserv patterns break down, but people still want to receive
>things (rather than get it all by web-browsing, for instance).
>
>Mark Hale
 
Sorry if I'm using a word that's not allowed on this list, but... isn't
this precisely what newsgroups were invented for? A newsgroup is just a
mailing list without a list server, and typical newsreaders are designed to
deal with more traffic that typical mail readers.
 
Nicolas