Wow, $800 for a mail server! That is a lot more than what Wildcat and a modem cost for the old PSN BBS systems... Larry, I remember pledging a check at the meeting. Larry I pledge $30 for the new mail server kuz that's what I can afford right now. I'll mail you the check today. Regards, Steve Hammond PSN San Jose Larry Cochrane wrote: > > At 07:23 PM 5/21/00 -0400, you wrote: > >Some of you may have already received your copies of Interpretation of > >Seismograms. All copies have gone out. I got 19 requests and received a > >total of $113. Copying was $53 and postage was $28 so I'm sending a check > >for $32 to Larry. Happy reading everybody. > > > >Regards, > >Ted Blank > > Thanks Ted, > > The money will go towards the new mail server I purchased last month. I > needed to replace the mail server we have been using for years do to > spammers hijacking the server. The old version of NTMail, the mail server I > had been using, would not allow me to block the spammers from using my > system. Upgrading to the new version NTMail would have cost over $1K so I > started looking for a cheaper server. After trying some cheaper servers > that didn't work, or did not have the features I needed, I ended up with > MailSite (see www.rockliffe.com). It was a little cheaper then the new > version of NTMail and after contacting the company and explaining that > their server would be used for the PSN and a few other mailboxes for my > personal usage they lowered the price to $800.00. Still a lot of money, but > I couldn't spend any more time looking for another server. > > When the spammers hit my system, my system was temporary placed on a > blacklist as an open mail server. Some ISP's use this list to block email so > I needed to get something work quickly so everyone would receiver messages > sent from my system. It was also taking a lot of my time evaluating servers > so when I found this server that had every I needed including blocking > spammers I went for it. > > Regards, > Larry Cochrane > Redwood City, PSN > > __________________________________________________________ > > Public Seismic Network Mailing List (PSN-L) > > To leave this list email PSN-L-REQUEST@.............. with > the body of the message (first line only): unsubscribe > See http://www.seismicnet.com/maillist.html for more information. __________________________________________________________ Public Seismic Network Mailing List (PSN-L)
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