On 12/11/2008 at 1:15 PM Henrik K wrote: >On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 04:33:50PM -0800, Jeff Chan wrote: >> >> Hi Micah, >> Thanks very much for the feedback. Does anyone know how many >> non-profits have more than 1,000 users (i.e., users with >> mailboxes)? The non-profit pricing is below ISPs and half that >> of regular end users. > >Sometimes the requirements make no sense. A server with 1 user can receive >more spam than a server with 1000 users. Both may be non-profit and receive >no money from users. There is a huge difference also whether you use >greylisting and other rules _before_ blacklist checks. > >So which is it, 250000 messages (queries) or 1000 users? > >1000 users and 10000 messages costs 500 USD. >1000 users and 250000 messages costs 500 USD. > >Which affects DNS servers more? > >Of course people can pretty easily lie about numbers. Setting up rsync >access does require some effort and resources. You could just write that >either pay the minimum 500 USD or don't bother us. > >If a large ISP pays 2000 USD for 10000000 messages, I'm not going to pay >500 >USD for 50000 non-profit messages (I am over the 1000 user limit and use >aggressive filtering before rbls). > >I would be happy to pay a nominal fee for "rsync-access" though, since it >does make things more secure and faster, also allows to use the data for >other purposes. Before that's reality, I guess someone needs to come up >with >a better public distribution method than rsync. P2P? > >By the way, do DNS mirrors get paid anything? It's my non-educated >impression that most big blacklists consist largely of donated DNS servers >from big ISPs etc. Respect to those that dare to face DoSes. :)
Read the entire sentence. "Please note that free public DNS queries for organizations smaller than 1,000 users or processing fewer than 250,000 messages per day is unchanged. " So you could have 1,000,000 users but less than 250,000 messages per day, or get 3 gazillion messages per day but for less than 1000 users. The key word is "or". If you satisfy either requirement ( <1,000 users OR <250,000 mails) then you still get free access. Or am I the one reading it wrong? Peter
