Thank you for everything that goes into 9fans' upkeep. On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 12:20 PM Russ Cox <r...@swtch.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 2:02 PM Skip Tavakkolian > <skip.tavakkol...@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 > >
