[geeks] Question...

[Bill Bradford]

(asking geeks and rescue about this because I know you guys will
 give me good opinions)

Would you guys object to a short 1 or 2-line sponsorship message
at the bottom of each email from the rescue/geeks/sunhelp lists?

I'm asking because I *might* do that in case I have to start paying
more for bandwidth soon - I did some mail stats and they're a lot 
larger than what I thought I was doing.  Here's the past 12 hours:

Postfix log summaries for May 24

Grand Totals
------------
messages

   2499   received
  62425   delivered
     40   forwarded
    648   deferred  (2611  deferrals)
      8   bounced
      3   rejected

  11684k  bytes received
 224367k  bytes delivered
    179   senders
    128   sending hosts/domains
   3811   recipients
   2764   recipient hosts/domains

Per-Hour Traffic Summary
    time          received  delivered   deferred    bounced     rejected
    --------------------------------------------------------------------
    0000-0100          64       1058         58          0          0 
    0100-0200          87       1715        232          0          1 
    0200-0300          34        529        195          0          0 
    0300-0400         372       6873        248          0          0 
    0400-0500         166       9135        213          0          0 
    0500-0600          75       1362        229          0          0 
    0600-0700          94       2483        266          0          0 
    0700-0800         160       3762        151          0          0 
    0800-0900         273       6784        232          1          0 
    0900-1000         294       8256        252          1          1 
    1000-1100         429       8340        292          2          0 
    1100-1200         389      11474        239          4          1 
    1200-1300          62        654          4          0          0 

That means I'm doing at *least* 500 megabytes/day of nothing but email
traffic - in addition to about 5 gigabytes/month of web traffic.  That
means that this machine is pushing quite a bit of bandwidth.  I may not
be pushing 10megabits, but its consistent, and it adds up...  Right now I
get a discounted colocation price from my ISP in exchange for system admin
work and referrals (I used to be their head admin).

Thoughts?  I'm not in immediate danger of having to start charging for
things (that would be the last thing I would do - I'd shut the site
down if I had to do that), but if I have to start paying more for 
bandwidth, corporate sponsorships of the lists might be an option.

I'd just like to get your opinions..

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX