Oh. That wasn't clear from the announcement, though I did guess that there was probably some charge for the service.

Nevertheless, though, the idea that a good answer stays unknown to the masses is a problem, at least to me.
I guess the person paying could be asked if they mind sharing the answer and that it could remain 'closed' if they indicate they do not wish to share. The main thing is to not 'hide' good answers that can help someone else.



>Hi Jim,
>You're missing one small step. :) You've to pay before you can ask a question using Hotline.
>
>>I'm not sure what the hotline is for or how it works. From what I read it sounds like I can pick a person showing up in the "Hotline" drop-down in the left side of the window and ask them a specific question.
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>>IF that's how it works then I have some concern about losing valuable answers from the regular searchable UT forums message bases.
>>What is being done to ensure that good questions and their (correct) answers will make it into the apprioriate message base so that the same information is then available through searches?