[Hosting] "local" host needed

[Richard O. Hammer]

Chris Hedemark wrote:
> On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 12:48 PM, Richard O. Hammer wrote:
> 
>> I am developing an email service, which uses both a mail server 
>> listening on port 25 and Tomcat listening on port 80.


> Richard, is the goal of your project going to be a proprietary product 
> you want to sell, or an open source project?  That may have a lot to do 
> with what kind of hosting is available to you.

Probably it will be proprietary, but not necessarily so.  Here are the 
considerations I see:

I would like to have a positive impact and get paid -- both.  At 
present I do not have a job and there is a limit on how long I can go 
on developing Mailscreen without pay.

As I think of it, the key to Mailscreen, the thing which makes it 
precious and unique (to me at least) is already open -- the website 
describes how it works and what my plans are -- in English.  The code 
is not necessarily very fancy.  The idea, in English, is what is 
different.

I am still learning the ropes of Internet development; I am not fast. 
  So I bet there are many developers, all around, who could take my 
English and produce working code in short time.  Probably they could 
start from scratch and produce a complete system, including the 
enhancements which I have said I want to add, and get it done before I 
do -- if they think it is worth doing.  But Mailscreen expresses an 
idea about private property rights in media which few people 
appreciate, which few customers will want to use anytime soon, and 
which may be foredoomed in spite of my love for it.

The idea of private property rights in media threatens many interests, 
and I expect to find a concentration of these interests in the 
open-source community.

While I think the open source movement has grown, appropriately, in 
response to a sick regime of intellectual property law, I am not 
opposed to intellectual property as I think it might exist in a better 
regime of law.  So I don't feel committed to either camp, proprietary 
or open source, in the present landscape, because I think the 
difference has been created by a sick regime of law.  I present 
Mailscreen as an example of a better form of regulation, in my opinion.

I don't know if my Mailscreen project is going to produce a "product" 
as much as a service.  I have generally thought of it as a service, 
but I suppose it might be packaged as a software product which ISPs 
could use, in the bundle of services they offer.

I guess I might be willing to make my code open if I got something in 
return, such as a host for the current production release of the 
service, and -- more precious -- collaboration in development of the 
software.  But this consideration would await expression of such 
interest from TriLUG.

Thank you,
Rich Hammer