I think if the consensus is "pay with commits or pay with bitcoin" we might have a consensus from the people that actually matter very quickly, because they've already paid ;)
My opinion is the most sustainable solution would be to identify a team of admins and use something like Digital Ocean's new team accounts feature and have someone like SolidX contribute funds for the servers and a few hours a week from one of their sysadmins to the team. I am dubious of most commercial list-as-a-service providers for the same reason I am dubious of sourceforge. Market conditions change and then all of a sudden the fact you're in control of a popular list becomes more valuable than what your customer is paying you to run the list. If the list provider can actively help out in encouraging read-only mirrors of the list archives, then I think we mitigate the above business risk. On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 02:28:55PM -0400, Ivan Brightly wrote: > I like elegant solutions and while eventually I can see a "pay to > contribute" service, I don't imagine you'll get consensus in short order. > > List provider costs are pretty reasonable, so if that's the hurdle to > overcome I'm happy to offer sponsorship. > > Ivan Brightly > SolidX Partners > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Andy Schroder <i...@andyschroder.com> > wrote: > > > Regarding changing the e-mail list provider. Is anyone interested in > > sponsoring it? There are non-free options, but it may be difficult to > > always ensure the fee is being paid to the provider. I think finding an > > agreeable free solution may have been the issue before? I've also > > thought of trying to make a pay per message or byte solution (and this > > cost could be dynamic based upon the number of current mailing list > > subscribers). This could solve the who pays problem (the sender pays), > > as well as motivate people to be more concise and clear with their > > messages, and at the same time limit spam. > > > > > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > Andy Schroder > > > > On 06/10/2015 05:35 AM, Wladimir J. van der Laan wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:25:12AM +0200, xor wrote: > > >> > > http://www.howtogeek.com/218764/warning-don%E2%80%99t-download-software-from-sourceforge-if-you-can-help-it/ > > > All our downloads (even old ones) have recently been deleted from > > sourceforge, for this reason. They haven't been mentioned in Bitcon Core > > release announcements for a long time. > > > > > > No opinion on the mailing list. Though I think it's less urgent. The > > issue of moving the mailinglist has come up before a few times and people > > can't agree where to move to. > > > > > > Wladimir > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > > Bitcoin-development mailing list > > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' ho...@hozed.org 7 elements earth::water::air::fire::mind::spirit::soul grid.coop Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel, nor try buy a hacker who makes money by the megahash ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development