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Re: Requested Feature for EUForum

• Posted by Alexander Toresson <alexander.toresson at gmail.com> Apr 06, 2005
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Robert Craig wrote:
> 
> 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. 

RSS ain't replacing e-mail, it's a quick and automatic way of checking what new
messages have been posted.

Regards, Alexander Toresson