On 06 4 2004 at 8:45 am -0400, A Lucas Victoria Group Inc. wrote:
>What does Tucows call "per user"?
>- Is it the sender of Spam? Each address sending spam is charged for
>example $0.30 per month for Anti-Spam feature?
>- Is it the domain name? Each domain name using Email Defense service is
>charged for example $0.30 per month for Anti-Spam feature?
>- Is it the spam email? Each blocked email spam is charged for example
>$0.30 per month for Anti-Spam feature?
These are good questions; I was wondering myself.
For the benefit of Tucows marketeers: I operate my own server where I
run my own mail system entirely. I might have an interest in considering
these Tucows email services, but never until/unless they were offered on
a per-gigabyte (or per-domain) basis. The notion of having to configure
and pay "per user account", if that's what's implied, is absurd enough to
make it not worth my while.
For example, I offer an arbitrary (within reason) number of mailboxes to
my web hosting clients. This makes it a more attractive product for my
users, with little to no extra administrative overhead. If they want a
new mailbox, I add it in. It costs me no more to operate, other than the
couple of seconds required to make the change.
Whether a user is sending 12 GB of attachments to one mailbox or 2 GB to
six, my costs are the same. There is thus even less incentive to hand
this over to Tucows (forcing a change of my billing model in order to
maintain revenues).
Just a thought.
-ben
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