Safe notices delivery
Second Life servers may restrict the amount of notices delivered to the group. The actual limits are not known and seems to vary from group to group. Some precautions will help to increase your delivery success.
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Official limits
The only official notices limit is 2500 notices per by single avatar.
Experimental results
The official limits are very optimistic, but sometimes you may face with more strict limitations applied by SL. Your notice may get silently discarded, usually this happens after 20 repetitive notices (nevertheless, usually you can send 30 or even 42 simultaneous notices without being capped).
Mysterious error message
Under some rare circumstances you may get the following system message after sending a notice:
"Failed to send group notice. It has been too soon since another group notice has been sent. Please try again after a few minutes."
We've faced this message while sending 10 and more repetitive messages to the same group. After receiving this message you should stop sending any notices. SL unblocks your avatar in about 10 minutes after a last notice.
As of 06/2013, SL support staff does not know any details about this error message.
It seems that 30 seconds delay helps to avoid this message. Lower delays' impact varies.
Reliable notices delivery
The best way to ensure the reliable delivery is to add a delay after each notice.
SmartBots periodic notices delivery engine allows you setting custom delay when you send notices to multiple groups (10+).