>Granted, the phrase "UT-Deadbeats" is pretty strong. Even I did not go there.
>As you may know, I am pretty much in the camp of free service accross the
>board.

Yep, I noticed that you were arguing more for banner revenue than for elimination of Basic membership....

>That said, may I asked why you got so personal in your response to Jeff, as
>opposed to arguing for why there should free access should remain.

<*shrug*> He hit a sore spot. Besides, as a non-paying customer, I didn't think it was quite fair to argue my point, given his premises (sp?). Voting with my feet, however, seemed reasonable...

>BTW, do you actually work for MS now, or are you still a contractor???? If you
>do now work for the borg, are you still in the technical support area????

Yes -- ever since I started identifying myself as from Microsoft, rather than MS Technologies, I've been an FTE here. Still in essentially the same position though: Support Professional, DSDAG Fox (Developer Support, Data Access Group). I guess we can't be Support Engineers anymore because of some states which have a narrow definition of "engineer"...