>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.

The workaround, "hacking of URL, etc.", that some were doing was not good. This has last for a short time. Once we discovered that some members decided to invest a few minutes to do this workaround just to get a single message, despite the fact that we couldn't believe it, we had to readjust as this was an open door some were using and that was going against the commercial aspect of the site.

>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. :)

Maybe you could elaborate what you mean by "treated". Did you receive some content from one of our staff which was not a good representation of the service?