>As far as staying on topic, perhaps you are right. The original topic had to do with the discontinuance of free PUTM for the Microsoft MVP. Could you tell me this, did the MVP's have to pay to use the FoxPro forum on Compuserve when it was "the" place to be to learn about FoxPro? I did and my company now pays for my PUTM. Being able to look up past threads and read them have been invaluable. Microsoft negotiated a 'freebe' for you with Mr. Fournier that is now over. I understand the suggestion that free access for the MVP's will be a boon for the rest of us. Do you expect that the MVP's will abandon the Universal Thread just because they have to pay for PUTM like the rest of us?

Although it pre-dates my tenure as an MVP, MS did cover the cost of CSi membership for the MVPs, whether by directly undewriting their accounts or providing CSi overheaded accounts, I can't say. MVPs are offered access to the Internet via MSN membership. I have no idea how many do this; I don't.

I paid my PUTM fee, and unless there is a compelling reason to abandon UT, I don't plan on doing so. I have widened my participation on other VFP centric sites, but that was done before the change in UT membership policy.