[40191] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: trapdoor.merit.edu and other impatient Postfix mailers everywhere (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Fri Aug 3 00:45:12 2001
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 23:41:55 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
Cc: Adam Rothschild <asr@latency.net>,
"John A. Tamplin" <jat@liveonthenet.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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Once upon a time, Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com> said:
> I also feel that the structure makes it easy for a really large customer
> to justify, as costs dwindle down to pennies/user, but kind of punishes a
> small ISP where you're not seeing the "volume discount". Not even a
> "thanks for the DUL entries". Perhaps they'll negotiate rates for smaller
> companies on the side? Otherwise, they're just driving "customers" to
> brightmail.
We've got ~30,000 mailboxes, so we aren't exactly small, but for us,
MAPS is significantly less expensive than Brightmail (we use both).
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
