>Do you have to have a Premium Membership?
Some of the options of the Universal Thread require PUTM (the premier membership). While there are several options which you don't have with the basic (free) subscription, one of the most useful ones is the option to do systematic searches in old messages.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)