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. :)
