[lopsa-discuss] Suggestions for Member Benefits

[Andrew Maddox]

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

> How about "The following members offer free Web Hosting to members
> who offer Perl Consulting"?

Oh, nobody's ever going to be interested in that "pearl" stuff, c'mon. 
Besides, who on *this* list would want to waste their time learning about 
such an obsolete technology? ;-)

One more suggestion that I tried to send from $NEW_ORK [0] which didn't 
seem to come through, though - email forwarding.

This came up as an idea in talking with a cousin of mine who's in IEEE. 
They offer mail aliases to their members as <name>@ieee.org, which they'll 
then forward to the realworld address of the member's choice. Move, change 
ISPs, whatever? They just change the alias, giving you effectively a 
permanent mail address to give people. I think some other professional 
techie orgs do this, too (ACM, maybe? not sure).

For many LOPSA members, this isn't as much of an issue, as so many of us 
have our own domains and multiple mailboxes all over the place, but it's 
something that wouldn't take a lot of resources to implement. Paid member? 
Okay, you get one email alias, where would you like it pointed? Higher 
classes of membership could get more aliases, or LOPSA could sell them for 
a small additional fee, something like that.

Just something to think about. And yes, I'm sending my check in this 
weekend.

Man, what a week.

[0] I think I'm still looking, though, either in my (.md.us) area or
     one of my relo targets, finger me for details, as this one is looking
     to be, well, less than I'd hoped. If you work with me, forget you saw
     this.

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