On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Michel Bouissou wrote:
If you can not afford $500 a year then you cannot afford to run a domain
or a mailserver. My reason for this is it takes more than $500 a year to
keep up with the technology of running as GOOD SECURE mail server.
A Micro$oft Shop, Eh?
Impossible. They don't have any "GOOD SECURE mail server" at "A Micro$oft
Shop".
Actually, for a big corporation, the $500 figure is not unreasonable.
That represents about 5 hours time + taxes/benefits of a typical tech employee.
This is an important budget component, and the original poster is correct
that if you have to pay salalary + benefits for someone to maintain
mail servers, another $500/yr is negligible.
However, those of us who have our own business, or work for a small
business, or have a hobby, are just as competent, or likely more
competent, than the corporate technician. But there is no dollar
figure attached. The self-employed and the small-business employed
worker wears many, many hats, but gets only one salary which he would
rather not hand over to someone else. The hobbyist does it for fun.
For comparison, getting a Verisign certificate costs $900/yr. Big corps
all have one, but us little guys have to settle for setting up our
own certificate authority (which customers are generally willing to trust
after a face to face meeting).
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