Re: [Mailman-Users] list sponsorships

2017-05-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Matt Morgan writes: > Yes, that's a great example, thanks!. I'd also love to see examples of a > sponsor message that's in the email messages (headers, footers, > digests) Subject header: not enough room. X-Face: you'd have to rotate sponsors if more than one, and it gets attached to From so

Re: [Mailman-Users] list sponsorships

2017-05-15 Thread Chip Davis
As Matt pointed out to me off-list, a lot of FOSS is provided for a profit. I live about five miles from Red Hat, and teach Linux for a living. Perhaps I should have been more specific that "I have a philosophical/ethical problem with MY charging for simply providing a FOSS service." While

Re: [Mailman-Users] list sponsorships

2017-05-15 Thread Richard Shetron
What I've always done is offered special pricing, usually at least 50% off for charitable 503(c) and other 'public service' type groups. It more depended on the resources they required and the amount of hand holding. On 5/15/17 3:13 PM, Chip Davis wrote: All of the Mailman lists I host/admin a

Re: [Mailman-Users] list sponsorships

2017-05-15 Thread Matt Morgan
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Steve Burling wrote: > On 15 May 2017, at 10:29, Matt Morgan wrote: > > Has anybody experimented with (or succeeded with) any form of mailman list >> sponsorship? A nonprofit professional assocation I work for asked me for >> advice about it. If there are current

Re: [Mailman-Users] list sponsorships

2017-05-15 Thread Matt Morgan
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 3:13 PM, Chip Davis wrote: > All of the Mailman lists I host/admin are provided free of charge, as a > value-add to the members of various non-profit groups. Insofar as the > actual costs of providing a discussion or announcement list are hard to > tease out, the best I c

Re: [Mailman-Users] list sponsorships

2017-05-15 Thread Matt Morgan
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 05/15/2017 07:29 AM, Matt Morgan wrote: > > Has anybody experimented with (or succeeded with) any form of mailman > list > > sponsorship? A nonprofit professional assocation I work for asked me for > > advice about it. If there are current

Re: [Mailman-Users] list sponsorships

2017-05-15 Thread Steve Burling
On 15 May 2017, at 10:29, Matt Morgan wrote: Has anybody experimented with (or succeeded with) any form of mailman list sponsorship? A nonprofit professional assocation I work for asked me for advice about it. If there are current examples I'd be curious to see them. If the nonprofit is a 50

Re: [Mailman-Users] list sponsorships

2017-05-15 Thread Chip Davis
All of the Mailman lists I host/admin are provided free of charge, as a value-add to the members of various non-profit groups. Insofar as the actual costs of providing a discussion or announcement list are hard to tease out, the best I could do would be to apportion the total costs of the serv

Re: [Mailman-Users] list sponsorships

2017-05-15 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 05/15/2017 07:29 AM, Matt Morgan wrote: > Has anybody experimented with (or succeeded with) any form of mailman list > sponsorship? A nonprofit professional assocation I work for asked me for > advice about it. If there are current examples I'd be curious to see them. I'm not sure if this is a

[Mailman-Users] list sponsorships

2017-05-15 Thread Matt Morgan
Has anybody experimented with (or succeeded with) any form of mailman list sponsorship? A nonprofit professional assocation I work for asked me for advice about it. If there are current examples I'd be curious to see them. Thanks, Matt -- Mailman