if i am paying, i also expect spam free and ad free or is that too much to ask?

Yes, we won't likely see any spam by using paid relays as long as we enable them for reading nostr data and limit the data coming from free public relay. Paid relays act like a wall that prevent spam from Bot coming. Basically, any paid relays will prevent the spam coming to those relay because spa...

Exactly. Nostr.wine is considerably easier to run and maintain.

sounds good to me. i'm in!