On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 03:19:49PM -0400, Russ Cox wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 2:02 PM Skip Tavakkolian
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > May I ask what the monthly cost of mailroute-ing 9fans is? I can't decipher the pricing from their site.
>
> Nothing but good things to say about Mailroute.
>
> They're mostly aimed at businesses with individual users.
> When I contacted them way back in 2011 to ask about 9fans,
> the owner said he had run Plan 9 on a Sparc at UCLA in 1993 (!)
> and offered to treat the list as a simple two-user domain
> since the list traffic is so low, plus a 10% referral discount that
> was running at the time. That amounts to $54/year currently
> (it started at $60/year but apparently the per-user price went down!).
>
> The service has worked like clockwork ever since then, except when
> my bank sends me a replacement credit card and the next January
> the annual automatic billing fails and I don't notice the emails about it
> (I'm really terrible at keeping up with email since having kids).
> The fact that the list is billed as a "user" is probably why they
> thought to try mailing it to reach me.
>
Even if you consider that it is an acceptable cost for you---and thank
you, BTW, for this and other things---I, for one, won't object to give
something per year so that the plan9 discussions and work can be hosted
(and I mean, all that is done around plan9---I have used Bell Labs'; I
installed 9front---I just discovered that there is the possibility to
define bounties with 9front for proposed work...).
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