>If they're going to start charging, it would be nice to know how
>much they charge and how to pay. I emailed them on the 13th -- as
>soon as the first note in this thread appeared -- and have yet to
>hear back.
>
>While I'm sure the MAPS service is very professional in its
>execution, this transition to a paid service seems to be ill-thought
>out. I'd have expected more web-based info, sign-up forms, etc.
There's not even e definition of terms. The ISP charges are quite
high (IIRC they start at $1,500 and go up) but then there's a
category for "small business" which is less than 100 mailboxes.
Excuse me?
Who's checking the number of mailboxes? And what does the number of
mailboxes have to do with volume? I have some mailboxes that get 2-3
emails A YEAR in them, and other's that get 1,000 a day. How does it
make sense to charge by email accounts?
It would make more sense to charge by queries. For example, 1,000
queries/month or less = free. 1,001 - 10,000 = x$ 10,001-100,000 =
y$ 100,000-300,000= z$, etc. etc.
I thought the entire pricing page was indicative of not being very
well thought out, and the lack of any real information did't seem to
me to bode very well.
If Maps goes away, which it appears it might, it will be a huge
(temporary) victory for spammers, but in the long run it might be a
good thing. More spam means more people pissed off, and more people
pissed off is a good way to get things done.
I can envision having a mailserver that has "Whitelists" where if you
are noit on the whitelist, your mail is bounced. I already
blacklisted China and I am very close from trying to figure out how
to blacklist the entire Pacific rim since most of the spam seems to
be coming from Japan, Korea, Singapore, and other pacific rim
countries.
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