Keep in mind that instead of groveling to Topica or any of those services,
you can have your own dedicated server for about $100/mo these days, and on
that dedicated server you can install Majordomo, Majorcool, and anything
else your heart desires, and serve 10 or 100 or 1,000 or 10,000 users
without asking permission from, or paying your life savings to, anybody.
Of course $100/mo is money, but on a list like this where myriads of list
managers congregate, how hard would it be to put together a co-op of 10 or
20 people, with more to come, who would chip in and share the expense?
Imagine controlling your own list's destiny, spam free, and paying $5/mo for
the privilege.
I don't work for them or have any other connection, except as a satisfied
customer, but one place where you can get cheap dedicated servers is
SkyNetWeb ( http://www.skynetweb.com ).
