OpenEuphoria

Re: Requested Feature for EUForum

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Apr 06, 2005
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Mario Steele wrote:
> Actually, and Robert you can correct me on this, that Delay, is not the CGI
> Submission proccess.  It's the delay that it takes for the Email to be sent
> from the CGI Form, to the Topica Email List, which then sends it back to
> listfilter for checking, before approving it, and sending that notice back
> to the Topica list, which then sends it out to the rest of the participants
> on the EUForum Email Listing.

When you post via the Web interface, there is normally a small
delay of a minute or so before your message appears on the
Web interface. That's due to a separate filter process that I 
have running that checks for messages every minute or so. 
It also checks for "to-be-moderated" messages from Topica.
At the same time as it appears on the Web, your message is sent 
to Topica for e-mail distribution. Topica can sometimes introduce 
a delay of anywhere from a minute to several hours.

> Also, Robert,
> 
> I'd like to know how much Bandwidth is being used, average, in emails from
> the Topica List, to the List Filter server, in a month.  Reason why I ask,
> is cause if the bandwidth isn't to high, I'm more then willing to work with
> you on setting up a Mailing List, with my Web Host, to make that final move
> away from the Topica system, and be free at last. 

You can multiply each message that's posted by 450 or so for all the
e-mail subscribers. But what's worse, is you'll attract a huge
amount of SPAM to your host machine, and also your host machine might
get put on a SPAM blacklist because of all the messages it sends out.

I'm still wondering if RSS can be used. It doesn't involve
broadcasting e-mails. Not everyone would want to use it though.
I did a small test, that worked, but I didn't see how it
could completely replace e-mail.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com