Larry,

>I too would like the hear the reasoning behind this. If it is a performance issue because there are over 30,000 members and the server can't handle it, that's one thing I can understand and respect. If it is a strong arm tactic to force BUTMs to switch to PUTMs then I am totally against it.

The only access BUTM's have to their replies are now all much more server intense operations, now the server has to send out the whole day's worth of message headers instead of the few actual reply headers. This just goes down as another issue that was not completely thought out before it was put into place, which has become standard operating procedure here over the last two years.