Hi,
I looking for a new home for my (majordomo-based) mailinglists - any help
would be appreciated. Let me explain a little bit more about them and why
it appears to me to be so difficult to find one that I turn to you:
Those lists were originally based on university server I had root access
on and the permission to host my own majordomo. I took over the whole
administration of the majordomo and contributed even to the administration
of the server. But everything changes and after over two years I left the
university they have shut down the server.
There are currently twelve lists which are all small (the largest has 23
subscribers), low-volume (here the largest generates about a dozen mails
on average) with recreational topics (ranging from roleplaying to when we
meet in a certain diner).
I've spent the last two months looking for a new home for them and the
only thing I found was flop: Based on a domain now owned by me, they let
me know that I'd have to pay the price they gave me for the majordomo for
each list (about 2.50$ per month). The domain come for about 10$ per month
(at least here in Germany one of the more expensive domain hostings) and
now they want me to shell out thrice that amount for the lists.
I'm more then willing to spend a few "bucks" on my hobbies - I think there
should be corners of the internet which are ad-free and allow somebody
else to pursue their hobbies, but I know also that not everything in life
comes for free. But not willing to pay excessive prices for something that
still is simply fun.
So, I'm looking for any hints, ideas and suggestions of how to find a new
home for those lists (or even better together with my domain), a home
where I don't get riped off for wanting something nobody else cares to
offer.
P.S. The sad part of the whole story is that those from the hosting
service in my eyes simply have no clue. For example, I sent them the
config files from my old lists to make their work easier. But they simply
reject the config files claiming there _might_ be compatibility problems
between Majordomo 1.94.3 (their version) and 1.94.4 (my version). Even
after mailing them the changelog they insisted on their claim. I think
they're some of those "let's get rich by doing some of this internet
stuff!"-types who think they've found a particular stupid idiot willing to
pay them endless fortunes for nothing.
Alex
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Alexander Zimmermann http://www.madalex.net/
