Personally, I can think of eight or ten reasons why someone with the talent & generosity to offer their work for free might find it difficult or impossible to offer off-site linking to their downloads (from restrictions imposed by the hosting domain to the necessity of alerting/informing anyone of necessary clarifications /qualifications /prerequisites that would otherwise impair the utility of the file. I agree with faeriegurl that opening a zip days or months later only to find a text file is a likely result of that kind of posting (frustrating, would be putting it mildly). I'd think it would help a lot, if the submission screen for people posting free stuff had a simple check-box if the download required an off-site visit. Then the posting in freestuff would have some standardized alert format (a colored box, a boldface notice with a "click here to visit hosting site"-type button, or something of that nature. It would be something for the admins to determine if it were worthwhile, & then to do. I have noticed more & more free webspace domains are going belly-up, & those remaining are resorting to more restrictions on permitted use (They can't sell the adspace that pays their bills, if no-one is visiting the sites with those ads), so this will only become more & more common as time goes on. Unless some member has gigs & gigs of available space to offer as an alternate host for downloads, I think a standardized alert on such postings would be the only fair way to allow a lot of generous members share their creations without confusing & agravating the intended benificiaries of their generosity. Anyway, that's my 2 cents worth. ps - On the question of posting in freestuff - vs - just announcing in the forum, I appreciate it both ways! G (errrr, yes, ahem!) What I mean is, I haven't been frequenting Renderocity that long, & was visiting nearly daily, mostly for freestuff, for quite some time before I even realized the forum was here! Or that Marketplace meant "here there be great stuffs to buy". Now I frequent all 3. I Try to make a contribution to the forums, as well as Supporting the community with Marketplace purchases (perhaps by years-end I'll be comfortable enough with the quality of my work, and have enough un-interrupted time to create a few postings to freestuff as well).