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"It's not on the plate, but FR needs to charge a $25 entry fee here. A cover charge. Just to know that everyone on the forum has made an investment in FR's ongoing success. Let the Good Times roll, GOP, Libs or Reform, let's yakk it up. Anyone unwilling to pony up $25, we'll watch your Civil War and Immigration Debates on Community Access."

Wow. Mark this as the first time I might not completely agree with something you've said. LOL

I do agree in principle that everyone ought to contribute. But if by forcing a "cover charge", you mean something like The Well, or what Salon did... It would shut off too many people at the pass. It would be a practical and fair solution to require a registration fee to enable posting and more complex preference settings... Is that what you meant?

Gold, Jim and John need to understand and develop a profitable financial model for this place ... one major benefit of the "cover charge" is the up front cash flow of a understandable income stream, and the information neccesary to invest in network, computing plannable network requirement. If 8000 people pay $25 each, that's $200,000 up front, and there can be a downsizing of the infrastructure and network expenses. It's plannable.

And, I'm just surly enough to expect EVERYONE here to throw a $20 into the mail for the services and value realized here. $20 bucks??? There's no excuse for not contributing, but we know the numbers.

I don't like individuals who use anothers assets to insinuate bile and resentment and cynicism into the prevailing discourse. You got a problem, that's why we are here. Let's identify it thouroughly ... ok, that's enough. Don't nobody come back until you've thought out a solution and an action plan we all can employ. Otherwise ... don't bother.

I'm outta here ... have a wonderful holiday sir! Peace, love, sacrifice, commitment, enlightenment ... all the good stuff comes together round this time. Regards!