From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2019 21:47:23 +0200 From: tlaronde@polynum.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20190809194723.GA2163@polynum.com> References: <8BA869F5-072A-4D72-9F65-C0D404E737A3@mailroute.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] MailRoute: Past Due Invoice for 9fans.net Topicbox-Message-UUID: 03db61b4-eada-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 03:19:49PM -0400, Russ Cox wrote: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 2:02 PM Skip Tavakkolian > 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...). -- Thierry Laronde http://www.kergis.com/ http://www.sbfa.fr/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C