I got idea to share.

Sergey Kuznetsov tlug-9a/WvBvX2Qpg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org
Thu Aug 19 20:12:10 UTC 2004


Taavi,

Thanks a lot for the link!


All the Best!
Sergey.

Taavi Burns wrote:

>On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:28:04AM -0400, Wil McGilvery wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>For the cost-concious webmaster, there are now (relatively) cheap alternatives:
>http://tccp.dreaming.org/
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>>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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