>>All for what an attempt to get another few hundred dollars out of the MVPs whose help here is one reason anyone else pays dollars to be here. Another huge case of short-sightedness by the UT management.
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>John Koziol mentions that this was a sysop decision in "UT problems" Thread #311141 Message #311146 on 2000/01/01. Still no word from Michel yet.

To the best of my knowledge it was a Michel decision. I don't recall any conversation with the sysops related to making this decision.