Good, I'm glad you're interested. As for PUTM: think of it as helping Michel keep this beast going so that it is here for us. A year's subscription is less than most of the programming books. It's less than 4 dollars a month. And I can't even begin to imagine what Michel and the sysops have put into this both financially and with sweat. (Okay, I'll get off my soap box now :-)

AFAIK, you don't have to be a PUTM to participate in chats.

>I definately want to be a part of this!
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>Question:
>Does something like this usually require you to be a PUTM to participate?
>I'm not currently, but if I must, I will, in a heartbeat....That's not to say I am looking to give money a way...It is to say that UT is the best thing of it's kind I've found and if I must pay to be a part of this chat, then it's worth my becoming a paying member.