On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 05:06:08PM -0500, Patrick Bogen wrote: > On 5/8/06, William D. Tallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Thanks for this response; it verified my suspicions and pointed me to > >the presumed source of the problem: the ISP. > > (Disclaimer, or un-disclaimer: I don't work for these people, but I > lease a server from them and have had pretty good service and > reliability for the week or two I've had the thing) > > A much cheaper solution than the one your ISP offers would be to rent > a virtual server. The best deal I've found is from www.vpsland.com -- > for $12/mo., you get 100GB of transfer and a virtual linux box that > should be more than beefy enough to run mailman, and perhaps any other > low-impact tasks you wish to assign to it. The upshot is that you'll > never have to deal with an evil ADSL company for your mailing lists, > etc; however, you will have to maintain your own fully-fledged mail > server, which may be a daunting task for the uninitiated. > > -- > - Patrick Bogen
This is an interesting option. Sounds better than having one's one machine vulnerable, I think. I could run a web server as well, and then Mailman would have the opportunity to be completely functional. I think that's the best idea. Book-marked their site for future reference. That said, I could have a static IP address for $10/mo. extra, but that would leave me vulnerable at any and all open ports (router/modem becomes an effective bridge for those ports when its configured to allow traffic to them. IIUC, that is). Re, evil ADSL companies: Yep, we got Quest. My local ISP has a deal with them, and the service was pretty spotty until I bitched loud enough that they came out and put a battery in the mini-DSLAM. Talk about incompetent! So far, though, it's been pretty good; they've got competition (at least for aDSL). In any case, this was supposed to be just a learning experience with the possibility of something functional if I wanted it. As I really don't have a current use for a list server, I think I'll limit the project at this point. Mailman > /dev/null. I'd like to take this opportunity, however, to thank you folk for the tons of information you make available, and for your courteous and substantial responses. I can say that if at any time in the future I need to set up something myself, I now have the basic knowledge tools to do so. At which point, "Ah'll be back!" Thanks for reading, Bill Tallman ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
