>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