MailScanner Future (aka money)

[Dimitri Yioulos]

On Friday April 21 2006 3:36 am, Julian Field wrote:
> On 20 Apr 2006, at 21:50, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Julian Field wrote:
> >> By the way the only merchandise I make money from is the book.
> >> Everything else is sold at cost price (except for $1 profit per
> >> item).
> >> But keep buying the other stuff as well, it makes very good walking
> >> advertising for me. If you want to donate money by buying something
> >> (useful in companies) then just buy the book. Or even maybe a few
> >> copies
> >> so that everyone involved with managing your email system has
> >> their own
> >> copy.
> >>
> >> I can always create a pretty printed CD with the latest version on
> >> it so
> >> that you have something physical delivered if you would like to
> >> donate a
> >> higher figure, I'm registered for tax purposes in the USA as well
> >> as the
> >> UK and have access to a bank account in both countries.
> >
> > Ahah!  Now we are getting somewhere...  I have no particular interest
> > in buying a book (even though I did) because we are just cutting down
> > trees, cluttering my bookshelf, and I won't read it that much anyway.
> > The list and webpage is more up-to-date.
> >
> > Much better is the idea of buying a CD with a pretty label on it.  You
> > can charge us more because it is "software", we get a deliverable item
> > that the business guys understand, and I can put in my safe for
> > emergencies
> > to make my boss happy.  Your profit margin for donations goes up.
> >
> > I remember that when I made my feeble donation long ago, I had to jump
> > thru hoops with the business guys to do it.  Remember how it was done?
> > Credit card?  The people here always want to do Purchase Orders; you
> > probably can't do that.  Some mechanism (other than Paypal) that
> > business guys understand would be a good addition to your webpage.
>
> I have a volunteer in Fort Systems to send out the invoices and
> collect the payments, so that much is solved.
> How much would you like me to charge for the CD?
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Julian,

Maybe you could package MS with the spamassassin/clamav easy install such that 
a user of the CD could install a "complete" mail system as an option.  I 
think people would go nuts over that.  At a minimum, that should be worth 
100USD.  Add a MailWatch option, charge a bit more, send some dough to Steve, 
too.

Just a thought.

Dimitri

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