[lopsa-discuss] Suggestions for Member Benefits

[Doug Hughes]

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Andrew Maddox wrote:

> 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.
>

It's in the works.