> I would suggest that if you send mail to 500,000 people and you don't have > the web capacity to handle the hits you're going to get, you're simply > not serious about e-commerce :) There was an IBM ad with this theme > on US TV not long ago--"We sent out the email but we forgot about web > server capacity until too late and our server went down with all flags > flying" or something like that. q.f. the Slashdot Effect Paul