17 Sep
2004
17 Sep
'04
3:21 p.m.
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Keller, Tim wrote:
I don't see where hosting would much of a problem at all. The trick is to charge for it. WLUG members who wanted an account on the box would each pay in a couple bucks a month and that money would be used to pay to host the box. If somebody had a decent speakeasy type (allows servers, has decent bandwidth) account, that money could be used to pay the electric bill for the box(s), add capacity, etc. Then you host an webpage,distro respository,irc channel, etc. off of it.
Tim.
Thus answering, with multiple valid points, the original question of why someone would want to use Gmail. Thank you, Tim. ;) -b