Re: List-only offers / services ? - was Web Hosting Providers - was Rapidhoster Pop3 config

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> It would be useful to be able to start the search for my next purchase
of
> a
> "Type 42 HA Widget" and potentially purchase from a
"friend" on the list
> rather than from a stranger.

Those damed 42 HA Widgets are hard to find aren't they? ;)

> I'm not sure how you'd control it for any list only discount rates
though,
> we wouldn't want to clog the list with people joining just to get a
discount

The list *could* have some link in the footer to a page of ukha specials,
so you'd have to be a member to know about it in the first place....

That sort of thing would, of course, have to be approved by our
illustrious leader (OIL) , but it may be perceived (I don't mean by OIL
necessarily, but generally) as some kind of endorsement of said list
and/or some sort of commercial sponsorship of the list.

so maybe another option is for someone to host something somewhere, not
advertised and then when someone on the list asks about a 42 HA Widget,
some kind soul will hopefully pipe up with "have you tried
www.somehoster.com/linkstoukhaspecialdeals.html" - thus allowing
people to
find these offers easily, without "advertising" them as such.

This will, of course, not assist new members with their own offers, since
they will not know to ask if they can be added to the site until the
scenario above happens and they spot the posting......