On Feb 2, 2006, at 4:52 PM — 2/2/06, Winship wrote: > Eric Thomas wrote: >> dead addresses, making backups, etc. As an illustration, a >> typical hobby >> list would cost on the order of $500-1000 a year. An active >> list could >> cost $10k or more a year. This may not be much for the >> advertisement >> manager of a large company, not when compared to print adverts, >> but what >> about the rest of us? I know L-Soft hosting customers cannot >> afford the >> price increase that would be necessary to cover an identification >> fee of >> five figures PER DAY. > > I run my lists (all discussion lists for particular professions) from > generous academic host sites. About a year ago I checked with Eric > as to > what it would cost to have one of them hosted at L-Soft. Ten thousand > dollars per year is about what he told me back then. That was > daunting, > but with this extra fee .... > > I didn't move any of my lists to L-Soft hosting, but what I would > like to > know is what, if any, impact this stuff will have on academic LISTSERV > host sites. Speaking as a LISTSERV site manager at an academic institution, I am wondering the same thing. Without specific details as to pricing and policy from Goodmail.com, one can only speculate at this point in time.