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
>
>