>I got a good chuckle out of your and Hilmar’s thoughts on the subject of UT Search ability. Yes, it is most ironic! Even a bit comical! Perhaps it is more about community when a non PUTM receives a link to a solution from a previous message.
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>Seems like we non PUTM’s could do a search until a couple of years ago. At that time if you asked a question someone would point out you should do a “search”. Times change and so do UT “features”.
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>I think the next “feature” will be Sergey answering your questions. This will only be available to PUTM’s. It will be a feature you always wanted but just did not realize you had to have a PUTM to enjoy it. :)


I was a paying member for the first few years, so I was always able to search. I know there was a trick to BUTM searching where you had to do it in a convoluted way. I thought it was done that way on purpose to encourage people to pay. It turns out that Michel just missed the tons of messages explaining how to do it and didn't know. Once he found out, he turned it off. I think that was about the time my membership expired. Sigh.

Maybe some day my boss will spring for a PUTM account. But I'm not willing to pay for it out of my own pocket anymore after the way I was treated. So, for now, I'm a lowly BUTM. :)

Michelle