>Hi Garrett;
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>I hope you aren't the least bit serious. The idea that paying members subsidize the non-paying members is not necessarily a general one.
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>Over the years that I have been an UT member, I have probably spent more time as a basic member than as a PUTM (whatever that means!)


PUTM is the neuter form of the Italian feminine word PUTA. ;->


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>There is a richness in the messages that is provided by all of the different members that would be lost if any group was gone.
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>I pay for a couple of reasons:
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>[1] Better search capabilities
>[2] view complete threads more easily
>[3] Support the UT so it stays the way it is.
>[4] Support the VFP community
>[5] I can afford to pay
>[6] To be able to converse with VFP'ers from all over the world
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>I would rather pay than have it disappear and think afterwards, gosh I should have paid to keep it around.
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>Sometimes, when I didn't do much VFP work (maybe I was on a VB project) it wasn't so necessary to be a paid member, but I still lurked and kept in touch.
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>I would rather think that I am paying for the privilege of conversing with basic members (like yourself) not to subsidize them.
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>>Well, when I posted the last message about leaving, I wasn't entirely serious: I wanted to see what the reaction would be. Since then, I've seen several other people complaining about having to "subsidize" the free memberships.
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>>See you on the MS Newsgroups.