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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: trapdoor.merit.edu and other impatient Postfix mailers everywhere (fwd)
Once upon a time, Gary E. Miller <[email protected]> said: > On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Chris Adams wrote: > > ..., I would have figured they could afford to pay 5� per mailbox per > > year (and MAPS might have even worked out a better rate than that for > > the big guys). > > http://www.mail-abuse.org/feestructure.html > > Per year, for $1,000 users, cheapest option, standard pricing > RBL+ $1,250 > DUL $500 > RSS $700 > $2,450 > > or $2.40/per mailbox per year. Sorry my budget does not go there... RBL+ already _includes_ DUL and RSS - that is how it differs from plain RBL. So, you only need the RBL+ (you've just about doubled your cost for no reason). Also, I was talking about zone transfer mode. If you only loaded the zone on a nameserver running on the same system as your mail server, for 1000 users your cost would be $1.30 per mailbox per year, or a little over 10� per mailbox per month. For big mail servers (like Yahoo), the $1250 per nameserver fee isn't all that much and is a fixed cost (they don't need to add nameservers as they add mailboxes), and the mailboxes fee is $50 per 1000 users, or 5� per user per year. For our 30,000 users and 2 nameservers, the annual fee is $4000, or just over 13� per user. For someone with 250,000 users and 5 nameservers (just to pick some numbers), the per user fee would be down to 7.5� per user. I'm not trying to justify MAPS price for every site out there. I was merely pointing out that if the "big guys" (some of which appear to have been just taking a free ride) had helped MAPS out before, we might not have reached this point. -- Chris Adams <[email protected]> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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