Update Group - What Is It?
Now, on to the good stuff! What exactly is this group and what’s the point? This group is for people who want to stay updated on Hawkster Damage Productions products, as well as taking advantage of special little incentives. The special incentives will be starting soon! Namely, whenever a new product is released, a random person in the group will be chosen to get that product for FREE. Pretty sweet deal, huh?
Of course, there has to be some benefit for me with having the group as well! The group helps me keep track of who my customers are and who has interest in my products. I know some people are in there just for the free stuff, and that’s cool too!
I’ve been seeing people who have things called “groupless updates” as well. I’ve contemplated building one of these myself for my customers. Basically, the idea is that you click on this object and you’re added to a list of people who the store owner can keep updated. This serves as an alternative to joining a group, which certainly is a positive thing. However, given the nature of the store’s various sporadic location changes, I just don’t see this as enough of a benefit, especially since using the function llGetOwner() in the scripting language would require you to reset the script whenever you had to rez the object again in order to preserve the ownership of the script. In doing this, all the contents of the update list would be lost and I wouldn’t know who to keep informed of store happenings. Until the store is in a solid location, I can’t really see myself using a groupless updater system and risk losing everyone who wants to keep in contact.
Using a group and not an in-world object also helps me conserve prim space so I can keep putting out cool stuff for all of you too 
