All of the Mailman lists I host/admin are provided free of charge, as
a value-add to the members of various non-profit groups. Insofar as
the actual costs of providing a discussion or announcement list are
hard to tease out, the best I could do would be to apportion the total
costs of the servers they are on across all the other services I get.
The income would be nice to offset my expenses but administering it
would be nearly as great as that of adminning the lists themselves.
So I treat it as my contribution to good causes.
Also, I have a philosophical/ethical problem with charging for simply
providing a FOSS service. I know it's allowed but still...
-Chip-
On 5/15/2017 1:53 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 05/15/2017 07:29 AM, Matt Morgan wrote:
Has anybody experimented with (or succeeded with) any form of mailman list
sponsorship? A nonprofit professional assocation I work for asked me for
advice about it. If there are current examples I'd be curious to see them.
I'm not sure if this is anything like what you have in mind, but if you
look at the bottom of any of the https://mail.python.org/mailman/* pages
(e.g. <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users>) you will
see s DigitalOcean logo and a Hosted by DigitalOcean link. DigitalOcean
is in a sense a sponsor in that they provide the VPS that hosts
mail.python.org and we get a little bit of credit for click-throughs on
that link.
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