From: Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] MailRoute: Past Due Invoice for 9fans.net
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2019 14:57:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJSxfmKe1Kp2CMdTHeS2dMd3HFHEaMAGEcNAU5nLP2=m6YgcPQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADSkJJW_JOi3v-KSZWd=V8kqjwzH8cz0JYX6ecQcYgO1FzTmKA@mail.gmail.com>
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Thank you for everything that goes into 9fans' upkeep.
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 12:20 PM Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-09 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-08 20:42 Christiane Howard
2019-08-08 21:01 ` Russ Cox
2019-08-08 21:03 ` Christiane Howard
2019-08-09 2:59 ` [9fans] " Skip Tavakkolian
2019-08-09 14:27 ` Russ Cox
2019-08-09 17:20 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2019-08-09 16:29 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2019-08-09 18:01 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2019-08-09 19:19 ` Russ Cox
2019-08-09 19:47 ` tlaronde
2019-08-09 21:57 ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
2019-08-10 4:59 ` Lucio De Re
2019-08-10 20:40 ` Calvin Morrison
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