From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2019 15:19:49 -0400 References: <8BA869F5-072A-4D72-9F65-C0D404E737A3@mailroute.net> In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [9fans] MailRoute: Past Due Invoice for 9fans.net From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Topicbox-Message-UUID: 03d7449e-eada-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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. Best, Russ