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jayeff · 03-17-2005, 10:06 AM

"You are welcome to submit your site for possible addition to the Advanced Submitter database. A precondition is to add some nice words and a link back to Advanced Submitter page (http://www.advancedsubmitter.com). The link back to Advanced Submitter should be from your submission page."

Your guess is as good as mine as to whether or not the program owners add sites at the request of their subscribers or simply because they are big enough to warrant inclusion, without requiring that recip. But at least publicly, there is no difference in this regard between Chameleon and AS (or most/all the other submission scripts). Sure a recip to the script is a lousy reason for listing a site, but why pick on one script owner for doing it?

And "teksonline" wants a $25 one-time fee, but who charges that? AS is $98 and if you don't want to build a database from scratch, look to spend another $150. Chameleon lets you in for $20 and gives you a reasonable database to get you started. It will take at least a year for Chameleon to cost as much as AS+database and long before that your AS database will be out of date except for those sites you have updated yourself. You can keep your favorite TGPs updated just as easily in Chameleon and leave them to stay on top of the smaller sites.

What I don't like about Chameleon is that there is no one-time option. You may not use/need their updates, but if you don't keep subscribing the work you put into your database is gone. And although they do update at least as often as anyone else, there are still quite a number of errors: some of them long-lived. There doesn't seem to be too much effort put into cleaning out the sites that never list anyone and accept submissions just to collect recips either, but I would hesitate to say they are worse than others in this respect.

03-17-2005, 10:06 AM
jayeff Confirmed User Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 2,944	"You are welcome to submit your site for possible addition to the Advanced Submitter database. A precondition is to add some nice words and a link back to Advanced Submitter page (http://www.advancedsubmitter.com). The link back to Advanced Submitter should be from your submission page." Your guess is as good as mine as to whether or not the program owners add sites at the request of their subscribers or simply because they are big enough to warrant inclusion, without requiring that recip. But at least publicly, there is no difference in this regard between Chameleon and AS (or most/all the other submission scripts). Sure a recip to the script is a lousy reason for listing a site, but why pick on one script owner for doing it? And "teksonline" wants a $25 one-time fee, but who charges that? AS is $98 and if you don't want to build a database from scratch, look to spend another $150. Chameleon lets you in for $20 and gives you a reasonable database to get you started. It will take at least a year for Chameleon to cost as much as AS+database and long before that your AS database will be out of date except for those sites you have updated yourself. You can keep your favorite TGPs updated just as easily in Chameleon and leave them to stay on top of the smaller sites. What I don't like about Chameleon is that there is no one-time option. You may not use/need their updates, but if you don't keep subscribing the work you put into your database is gone. And although they do update at least as often as anyone else, there are still quite a number of errors: some of them long-lived. There doesn't seem to be too much effort put into cleaning out the sites that never list anyone and accept submissions just to collect recips either, but I would hesitate to say they are worse than others in this respect.