At 12:35 12/2/98 +0000, Deborah Cresswell said: |We have several lists within listserv and on some lists we have |thousands of subscribers. Not at all unusual. |When I send a post to one of these large lists, does listserv send out |this posting to all of the subscribers within hours Maybe, maybe not. Hard to tell. Depends upon a "host" of factors including LISTSERV(R) list definition, availablity of DNS, circuits, routers, Mail eXchangers, LISTSERV(R) hosts on the Distribute Backbone, etc. |or does it have alimit as to how many it can email per day. A list can be setup to limit how many messages per day the list may generate i.e., not the volume of messages it places on the out-bound SMTP queues to the subscribers, but the number of incoming ones. Exceeding this "in-bound" number will cause the list to be automatically held with messages queued, until manually released ("FREE"). Futhermore, the number of in-bound messages on a per-poster basis can be monitored, and any poster who exceeds their daily limit will be REJECTED (not queued) for the rest of the day, and then be automatically re-enabled the next. Note that this subscriber limit is for either ALL posters or NO posters, and can NOT be individualized by userid. | |I noticed the Daily Threshold parameter within the list headers, but I |am really hoping that this does not apply to the above, but rather to |how many posts I send it per day. | |Please clarify my query Hopefully I clarified. /Pete Weiss at Penn State