From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <8BA869F5-072A-4D72-9F65-C0D404E737A3@mailroute.net> In-Reply-To: From: Skip Tavakkolian Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2019 14:57:32 -0700 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0000000000008cb500058fb643b5" Subject: Re: [9fans] MailRoute: Past Due Invoice for 9fans.net Topicbox-Message-UUID: 03e933e8-eada-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --0000000000008cb500058fb643b5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Thank you for everything that goes into 9fans' upkeep. On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 12:20 PM 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. > > Best, > Russ > > --0000000000008cb500058fb643b5 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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.ta= vakkolian@gmail.com> wrote:
> May I ask what the monthly cost of mailroute-ing 9fans is?=C2=A0 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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