> We asked a network provider and were quoted a price of > $750/listserv/year. We asked a contractor and were quoted a price of > $10000 to purchase, install and setup a listserver on-site (with a > newserver thrown in) plus $70/hour to troubleshoot. THe software they > suggested, though, is NOT free and has an annual fee based on the number > of lists you use. > > I'd like to know if anyone can suggest less expensive options. We're an > educational organization so can't just throw money at the problem. I'd > also like to know if we're taking the right approach? > We manage 8 lists, total 6000 members. We using PcBoard ($95), a 386 computer with 4 megs memory and netxpress ($175) Holonet is our provider which runs $300 a month which also feed 52 newsgroups and thousands of messages a day It works ted