OpenEuphoria

Re: missing posts???

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> May 31, 2002
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Chris Bensler writes:
> I think the ONLY solution is for RDS to get it's own server for a 
> mailing list. Have the mailing list running from eu, of course.
>
> I don't understand why you can't do this rob, your pc is already 
> handling every email that passes through the list by way of moderation.
>
> You could eliminate Topica altogether, AND strip a step out of the 
> mailing list process.
> 
> I guess what would be needed for that is a list server written in eu, 
> and a webbased based client

It would be fairly straightforward to set up a mailing list server,
written in Euphoria, and running on RapidEuphoria.com.
I have all the technical knowledge needed to do it, and the
"hacker" in me wants to do it. However the business person
in me sees the following problems:

* a month to get a crude version set up, 
   with Web interface, e-mail delivery, digests etc.

* another month to polish it

* ongoing maintenance, trouble-shooting  and tweaking, forever

* addr.com (my Web hosting company) might not be any more
   reliable than Topica at pumping out e-mails to 380 people, 50 times per day
   addr.com does crash sometimes, and the mail server has died at
   other times

* I might have to pay addr extra $ per month 
  because of the increased bandwidth I'd be using.

* Euphoria gets some exposure by being in the Topica index

* Topica might get better. Yesterday, some messages were taking hours
   to get through, but today most messages are only taking a few minutes

I've recently tested Yahoo groups and MSN. Yahoo has more
ads than Topica, and they are big, "in-your-face" ads.
MSN is Microsoft - you need a passport to do anything.
Many people on this list hate Microsoft.

The e-mail delivery times on both were not very good either.

They both have a feature where the owner/moderator of 
a list can choose to send "important" messages (announcements)
to everyone, including a class of people who sign up
just for the important messages. Maybe we should consider 
something like that.

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