I got idea to share.

[Taavi Burns]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:28:04AM -0400, Wil McGilvery wrote:
> Are you wanting someone to develop the web site and then offer it for others
> to use or are you wanting to setup a site with this functionality?
> 
> Your message mentions volunteers. So I am assuming you are looking for free
> or a very low cost to participate in this web site as a vendor?
> 
> Developing the application would be relatively easy, but hosting it would
> not.
> 
> If the web site had low traffic it would be very easy to manage and could be
> hosted anywhere - even in someone's basement, but then who would want to
> participate in a low traffic web site. There would not be much benefit to the
> vendor to participate.
> 
> If the web site became a high traffic site, then stability, reliability and
> bandwidth all become issues and there are cost associated with these issues.

For the cost-concious webmaster, there are now (relatively) cheap alternatives:
http://tccp.dreaming.org/

> 
> Also as more vendors sign up it would become a daunting task for a volunteer
> to police the site so you would need a reporting mechanism to report false
> records or a registration process that could have an approval process.

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