Tue, 6 May 1997 09:47:01 CDT
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On Tue, 6 May 1997 04:54:27 +0200 Eric Thomas said:
>On Tue, 6 May 1997 00:28:56 +1100 Adam Thyer <[log in to unmask]> said:
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>>I've noticed that some providers will host Majordomo lists for about
>>$100 per year (which I could afford), but I understand that Majordomo
>>does not provide automated handling of bounced e-mail, and resolving
>>bounced messages has become a very time consuming task.
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>The main problem though is that $100/year is usually the rate for a small
>list. Once you explain that you have 10k subscribers and that your list
>is quickly growing and could have anywhere between 30k and 50k within a
>year, competent ISPs will want a lot more money and the others will sell
>you the service for $100 but then find out the hard way that it is below
>their costs. Your best bet is an academic sponsor, or a site like AOL
>that runs some mailing lists for free. If this doesn't work you can try
>to find a corporate site willing to sponsor your list in exchange for a
>banner in the issues.
One minor addition to what Eric said; you could charge a very small
subscription fee to the list subscribers ($1 per year?). That would
give you $10,000 with which to pay for a service (or buy your own
PC and run Listserv on your own).
I have considered that for a couple of the lists I run....
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