Michel,

Ok, let me try and get this straight so there isn't any miscommunication, and so you don't misintepret my messages or what I have been doing.

I have been writing an application to get the UT WebService for new messages, even though I'm not a PUTM member and I won't be able to use it. I thought it would be really kewl just to write the application. I just got the schema from PUTM member, (who you have been informed of) and wrote the application based upon that. I haven't even been able to use it, except by setting up a clone of the WebService locally, and sending fictional datasets so I can test the application.

I'm not trying to make an offline archive, or bypass the UT membership or get search features etc. It was never my intention for doing that ever. I saw that you had added WebServices for UT, and had spent the time writing and converting them over to .NET, so I assumed they weren't meant to be used (I thought a logical assumption). I'm not trying to cut into your profits, or get access that I haven't paid for. I wanted to write an application, that would sit in my taskbar, and poll for new messages so I then could jump up on the site and read them. I thought it would be kewl, to write the application just for the sake of writing it. I'm a geek, and interesting projects intrigue me and I go off spending hours writing code, w/ no promise or hope of monetary reward, but just for the sake of learning and for the knowledge of how to write it and because I truly enjoy it.

And I know, or well I hope some of the UT ppl are those type of geeks or at least were at one time. I mean the whole point of you writing a webservice was meant for people to write applications that will consume the service, correct? Or am I wrong?

I'm not trying to take away from you at all. I was actually planning after I got it to some level of stablity to make it available to all the PUTM members, and I was planning to give out the source code as well. That way you could offer a whole another application to your PUTM members, FREE without any work. I was even going to send you the source code, so you could modify it or just throw it away or give it to other members so they could add to it. So I was actually trying to add to the community. Because in the end, unless I purchase a membership, I won't even be able to use the application that I'm writing.
But that isn't the point, I found a project that interested me and my geekness decided to go off on it. The only type of reward, I had planned to get from it was the knowledge of writing an application to poll webservices and run in the taskbar. I was actually trying to help, since I know it takes a lot of time to run a community site.
So I'm not trying to destroy the site, or make it so you can't make money off of it. I'm not trying to get around your membership restrictions.
You say the WebServices are not supposed to be a replacement for the Online Interface, but then what are they there for? What use are they supposed to have?
I mean the application I'm using isn't trying to replace the online Interface, it is trying to make it easier to use and encourage more activity.

But if the Webservices weren't created for this type of use ( which they seem ideal for) what were they created for?

Still a true Geek at heart..
Morgan