How long does it take to send out the weekly Newsletter?

Sam_c

noooo :(( 1 minute just let me check my goverments deportation laws...... ok..., i'm off to china... catch me now :laugh::laugh:

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Josh Smith

sonsam wrote:

ok..., i'm off to china... catch me now

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Roger Wright

I understand the real challenge is to get the squirrels running the server farm to type the bloody thing each week. Apparently the thought of addressing 4+ million "assorted nuts" is terribly distracting to the staff, and it can take Chris several hours to days (not to mention quite a quantity of beer) to settle things down.

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Zoltan Balazs

Thanks go to Chuck Norris for keeping an eye on the squirrels !

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Paul Conrad

I'm not sure how long, but I get it on a good regular basis with only a few hiccup here and there :)

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El Corazon

Roger Wright wrote:

I understand the real challenge is to get the squirrels running the server farm to type the bloody thing each week

and the reason they chose squirrels instead of pigeons?[^] -- modified at 17:40 Monday 30th July, 2007

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peterchen

Head of Vecna comes to mind...

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Paul Conrad

El Corazon wrote:

they chose squirrels

When did Chris do that? I thought it was hamsters :laugh: Or his he just using both for a little diversity?

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El Corazon

Paul Conrad wrote:

When did Chris do that? I thought it was hamsters

If google runs on pigeons, that still leaves the same question, why does CP use hamsters? do they eat less than a pigeon? do they complain less? as to the confusion... not sure... maybe someone applied a bit of electric current to the hamsters to encourage them, and then the tail fluffed up and started all the confusion over squirrels....

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Paul Conrad

El Corazon wrote:

why does CP use hamsters? do they eat less than a pigeon? do they complain less?

Hamsters just keep on going like the Energizer Bunny, they may eat less than pigeons, thus saving $$$ on feed, probably don't complain and any slow down can be fixed with a 9V battery :rolleyes: Squirrels could probably be in the mix, as long as they have an ample supply of peanuts and acorns, but that is probably cost money unless Chris has a supplier that he can buy in serious bulk orders :)

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El Corazon

Paul Conrad wrote:

Squirrels could probably be in the mix, as long as they have an ample supply of peanuts and acorns, but that is probably cost money unless Chris has a supplier that he can buy in serious bulk orders

you think with "4,355,705 members and growing! 7,537 now online." Chris can't find an endless supply of nuts? ;P

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Rob Manderson

Roger, you still planning to be in the Phoenix area this week? Thirsty throats want to know!

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Paul Conrad

El Corazon wrote:

"4,355,705 members and growing! 7,537 now online." Chris can't find an endless supply of nuts?

:laugh::laugh:

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Aaron VanWieren

I have enough squirrels and acorns in my yard that if he needs either, I will supply him for free!!!

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Paul Conrad

Aaron VanWieren wrote:

I have enough squirrels and acorns in my yard that if he needs either, I will supply him for free!

Same here. Probably a good 50 squirrels on my little block, and my newly paved street (county did the job 6 weeks ago) is already covered with mashed up acorns. Must be a bad winter coming if the squirrels are loading up on acorns already :suss:

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Chris Maunder

Days. But, coming up on my TODO list and now actually within site is the item: Rewrite mailout system We have around a milliomn subscribers to the newsletter and aim to have them allsent within a few hours.

cheers, Chris Maunder

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Chris Maunder

Insider is a smaller list (400K), can be broken up and sent in parallel, and consumes a lot less processing power to create so goes out around 5X as fast as the newsletter.

cheers, Chris Maunder

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Josh Smith

Thanks for the info, Chris. That satisfied my curiosity. :)

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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

I think it should have been configured as a late night Sunday through early Tuesday job considering the huge amount of members to which the newsletter has to be sent. We have take into account the various factors that the CodeProject SMTP server would be facing: 1) Slow connecting SMTP servers 2) Incoming SMTP load 3) Other system activity like Antivirus etc. I think, CP can consider geographically distributed mailing list like mailing lists for Asia Pacific can be sent on a particular day; Europe on a different day etc. That should distribute the load evenly making the server to breathe a bit more comfortably. Isn't it?

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Lost User

Chris Maunder wrote:

Days. But, coming up on my TODO list and now actually within site is the item: Rewrite mailout system We have around a milliomn subscribers to the newsletter and aim to have them allsent within a few hours.

...that could help you out here, Bill Serg...

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