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To: The Ox who wrote (3278)	1/21/2005 8:48:43 PM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6035

The opening premise is incorrect, though. Grandfathered members do have to pay to get premium features just like everybody else. As far as having some unrestricted posting ability and PM usage, they did, after all, help found the site into a groundswell to make it a success. Still have to pay for premium stuff like advanced search. What conflict do you see in that?

To: The Ox who wrote (3278)	1/21/2005 9:53:59 PM
From: SI Dave	Respond to of 6035

You're not being short-changed, and you were never promised all new features forever. For that matter, new lifetime subscribers aren't promised that either. One more time: The ONLY difference between a "new" lifetime subscriber and an "old" lifetime subscriber is that new lifetime subscriptions comes with a 1-year Premium-Plus subscription. At the end of one year, if they do not re-subscribe to P+, they will lose the premium features and be just like another other lifetime/grandfathered user; unlimited posting and batch reads 10 at a time. No advanced search, no batches>10, no read-by-user, no "kept" messages, etc. If it makes you feel better, the lifetime subscriptions recently sold were as a package: $180.00 for lifetime status, and $19.95 for one-year of Premium-Plus features. The P+ subscriptions was extended to 12 full months when P+ was officially launched December 8th. Likewise, all quarterly, semi-annual, and annual subscriptions still in force were likewise extended. Any "old" lifetime subscriber or grandfathered user can achieve equivalence by purchasing 12 months of P+ for $19.95, the same price paid by new lifetime subscribers. That will also apply to new lifetime subscribers at the end of their subscription.

To: The Ox who wrote (3278)	1/22/2005 3:15:36 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6035

Those of us that have brought SI to THIS POINT!...would certainly disagree....what crap.....many of us have made a LOT of people aware of this site for over EIGHT YEARS and contributed to it in many many ways over the years.....were you at the first annual SI members get together with Jill our webmaster up in the Bay area....no..... we continue to contribute and many have left....so it's a toss up CC