"My opinion is the most sustainable solution would be to identify a team of admins and use something like Digital Ocean's new team accounts feature and have someone like SolidX contribute funds for the servers and a few hours a week from one of their sysadmins to the team."
This is a perfectly fine option. Alternatively, if the paid mailing list option is preferred, I'd suggest Intermedia:
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