Yeah, I've seen this idea floated before. It's the maintenance that's the real headache. First you've got to catalog all the existing freebies (hard). Ideally, you'd let users do this for you, but then you'd need a kick-butt way to weed out duplicates (harder).

Then you've got to account for link rot. And with the frequency that Poser sites come up, go down, move around and re-arrange the furniture, this is a major undertaking all by itself. You'd wind up doing a lot of web-crawling.

But suppose freebies are hosted by a site that doesn't like you eating their bandwidth all the time to spider for new posts or dead links? Suppose these sites are the very ones that host the most and the most popular of the freebies, like DAZ, Rendo or RDNA? While you might be able to count on visitors posting the latest new freebie as soon as they find it (fun!) you'll have a much harder time getting visitors to spend their surfing time weeding through your whole back-catalog looking for broken links (booooring).

It's not as simple as putting up  a search form and a data entry form and hooking them to a database. Not to mention somebody's got to not only code it, but host it and pay the bandwidth fees.

• Jimdoria  ~@>@