>>I am not the owner of the company.
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>The following link will take you straight to the payment information, including how and where to send payment by check. Perhaps Michel should make this more easily accessible so that people who don't want to pay by credit card can be easily accomodated: http://www.levelextreme.com/register.asp#3

Michel had e-mailed already and clarified that the actual amount is far lower than I knew of. It is CND not 125USD. With that said, I again submitted a recommendation to the management. I really want to have full access on the UT because I am missing a lot.

>>I noticed you are becoming hot nowadays not only to me huh...
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>If you mean I'm impatient with critiques of my motives for participating here, you bet, even more so since I'm now paying for the privilege of answering questions, and losing the support of some of the most valuable members of the MVP program here on UT because of the loss of PUTM privileges for the MVPs. JVP's input on things he knows far better than I do will be sorely missed here, regardless of what his attitude may have done to upset people.
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>From my POV, John's presense made UT a good place for me to get some solid answers on things like ADO, and he provided me with some solid material when I first ventured into the area. I'm willing to put up with a little more on-line attitude and ego than some people, at least when the person's judgement of their self-worth is right on the money.

Its JVP's decision to leave. We will really miss his technical expertise but what can we do?

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>>>>But you have to stay accurate and valuable to stay on that level. That's why MVP status is just but temporary thing. Today you may be accurate but tomorrow, that I don't know of, because nothing is permanent...
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>>>No, I have an obligation to be accurate because I'd appear to be another useless source of noise if I were not.
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>>You have to with your own capacity, but we have no rights to oblige you.
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>I don't think that it's an obligation to anyone else that drives the MVPs (and a lot of others who're contributing just as much) to be technically accurate.

I can't speak for anyone else, but it is improper for us to say: "Hey you are an MVP, you should be accurate all the time." But no one would ever want to be put into shame that's why I said, "you have to be accurate with your own capacity."

>While the MVP recognition is nice, and there are benefits, I doubt that they compensate financially for the time and effort spent by most of the people in the program. The UT produced a whole crop of new MVPs over the past year, and they weren't scrambling to maintain a position or status in the community.
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>We're also ignoring a whole group of people here on UT who aren't MVPs who contribute their time and effort to making this place work. What impetus does Erik Moore have to be consistently helpful and accurate other than his own personal integrity? Or Evan Delay. Or any of the large group of deserving people whose names I've omitted in this example.

I agree with you 200%.