> Why mention it if it's common knowledge? You mentioned it. I was chided about not knowing about it, as if everyone did. My point is, it didn't seem to be common knowledge amongst the list membership. Or perhaps I'm an idiot and I'm the only one amongst the 3K+ folks who was aware tis was the issue when folks were clamoring for the list to be "fixed" recently.
> And why is one arbitrary licensing model any better than another? "Better" is a subjective term, and one that very likely differs in viewpoint from vendor and customer. In this case I'm sure it's "better" if Lyris can extract more licensing fees. But from a customer viewpoint, it seems that 2 orgs could both push 500K messages thru a listserver, but if one has customers concentrated in 4 US time zones, and another spread across the world, the former is being penalized despite getting the SAME usage out of the server. You want to talk about usage based billing... my utility company doesn't care if I pull 100 amps for 2 hours, or 10 amps for 20 hours. The Lyris model isn't very accommodating for varying usage patterns. And I almost always default to preferring what's "better" for me, than for the vendor. ; ) -sc -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 11:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Good SBS list On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: > If this was common knowledge, I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned a week > or two ago when the slow msg delivery was such an issue. Why mention it if it's common knowledge? > That would be like MS licensing Exchange not on total number of > mailboxes, or store size, but the number of messages your server could > send in any given hour. And why is one arbitrary licensing model any better than another? Licensing per message sent is arguably the closest to usage-based billing. If you have a lot of lists but almost no traffic, you're not getting more use out of the software. If you have a lot subscribers but almost no traffic, you're not getting more use out of the software. So this is arguably "more fair". On the gripping hand, why anyone would *pay* for a list server when both Majordomo and GNU Mailman are free -- and apparently work better -- is beyond me. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
