At 07:46 AM 9/29/97 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
I'm wondering about your co-location machine, from your comments above it must be sitting in a field since you don't pay rent (or was that your way of saying somebody else pays the rent for you?). Is this so? Since so many of your utilities and physical plant are donated I have to question the accuracy and utility of your figures as well as the applicability of those figures to a true commercial enterprise.
Cracker is a colocated machine. I've said this before. The connectivity charges includes space, electricity, air conditioning, back up power, network management, bandwidth, and so forth. For connectivity pricing, I took the cost of a rack and prorated it for one machine. Cracker is run by Electronic Frontiers Georgia (EFGA). EFGA is a non-profit Georgia corporation. No, I never said we were a commercial enterprise. I merely outlined what the equivalent cost to a commercial enterprise would be. In Cracker's case, that is $50K per year based on prorated prices, not the full charges. Of course I left out our donated legal time we have. When used, that is a chunk of money. $50K per year would not begin to cover the costs of operation for a standalone commercial remailer operation. It does represent what Cracker currently is using, including current donated resources. To run Cracker as a standalone commercial enterprise would take a lot of ecash, and I don't think it would be feasible at this point in time. For an existing internet business, adding a remailer may be very inexpensive, a cost of practically zero, except for the complaints. -- Robert Costner Phone: (770) 512-8746 Electronic Frontiers Georgia mailto:pooh@efga.org http://www.efga.org/ run PGP 5.0 for my public key