Its is Overkill, providing your time has no value to chase down why X Mail server can’t be delivered to, or why X mail server has undefined bounces or x firewall system thinks it’s spam, etc. etc.
Amazon never goes down, never gets blacklisted. If you are cool with bulk mailserver drama, then have a go at switching, and managing that aspect. 😊 AES is not the cheapest option no doubt. This was a choice Chuck and I made to make sure it “just worked” because we all have businesses that, hopefully, are successful enough to not want to fuss with it. Paul From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Matt Hoppes Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2018 2:13 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Pledge drive What is SES? Amazon? That seems overkill for a mailing list. On Feb 18, 2018, at 14:09, Mike Hammett <af...@ics-il.net<mailto:af...@ics-il.net>> wrote: SES ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions<http://www.ics-il.com/> [http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png]<https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/googleicon.png]<https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/linkedinicon.png]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/twittericon.png]<https://twitter.com/ICSIL> Midwest Internet Exchange<http://www.midwest-ix.com/> [http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png]<https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/linkedinicon.png]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/twittericon.png]<https://twitter.com/mdwestix> The Brothers WISP<http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> [http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png]<https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/youtubeicon.png] <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> ________________________________ From: "Matt Hoppes" <mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net<mailto:mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net>> To: af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2018 1:05:36 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Pledge drive Support of what??? What the heck costs that much? Mailman takes all of 10 minutes to install and just lives after that. On Feb 18, 2018, at 13:52, Ryan Ray <ryan...@gmail.com<mailto:ryan...@gmail.com>> wrote: Last time this was brought up the cost was $3000 for the year including support, $1800 not including support. On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 10:41 AM, Matt Hoppes <mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net<mailto:mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net>> wrote: Can it really be more than $5???? How much memory, CPU, and storage can a mailing list take when virtualized? On Feb 18, 2018, at 13:20, Keefe John <keefe...@ethoplex.com<mailto:keefe...@ethoplex.com>> wrote: Just curious, what are the monthly costs to operate this list? On February 18, 2018 11:13:54 AM CST, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> wrote: I notice it has been a while since we pushed a bit to help fund the not-insignificant AWS expense that keeps this list alive. Please clean out your couch cushions and paypal the revenue created to pa...@pdmnet.net<mailto:pa...@pdmnet.net> Paul, what is the current status of our deficit? -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.