I have to agree with all the other people who have expressed comments about the escalating costs to provide a good anti-spam/virus service. I also run into the problem of the client say "it is good enough" and when you look in their inbox if has a bunch of spam in it.
So let me throw out a few thoughts on the yet not defined revenue sharing model. I provide a great service to my clients already. So far they are happy with it and my FPs are very low. For me to add the Commtouch product to my mix as is would be another cost with no extra revenue. What I could see is that as a Service Provider I get the Commtouch software for free and then I can turn it on per domain. What I would do is give existing customers a try and say "this is the next level of spam fighting" (or some other marketing words) and if you like it after your trial I will charge you an extra $x/month or whatever. If they sign on then I might consider sharing that incremental revenue with Declude/Commtouch. So the questions that arise out of this are: Can this new Commtouch thing be turned on and off by domain? What is the initial cost (if any) to the Service Provider? What is the % that Declude/Commtouch want out of my INCREMENTAL revenue? Hopefully this line of thought will stir some thought on how the revenue sharing model might work. Any other opinions out there? Goran Jovanovic Omega Network Solutions --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
