Re: [9fans] MailRoute: Past Due Invoice for 9fans.net

[Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>]

On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 2:02 PM Skip Tavakkolian
<skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> 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.

Best,
Russ