At 10:08 PM -0600 5/1/08, Ben Parker wrote about Re: Experience with Rate Limits:
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>Remember that LISTSERV does not mail to end recipients directly.  It mails to
>a relay mailer that in turn is responsible for the final delivery.  The
>Rate_Limit feature only controls the mail flow between LISTSERV and the relay
>mailer.  Since this segment is inside your local network (and often on the
>same machine as LISTSERV) upstream traffic is not relevant.  The main purpose
>of this feature is to keep from over-loading the relay mailer.

I understand.  It is our local server that I am trying to help.  If I have a mailing to 80,000 students, what I do now is break them into 16 groups of 5,000, create 16 lists with different prime times, and send the mail.  Big nuisance.  Rate Limit might help, not sure if it can be tuned for this purpose.  Would rather have control of messages per minute or some such thing.
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