theperlyking - 5:51 pm on Jun 17, 2001 (gmt 0)

I think macguru has a point about people saying they will support something until it comes to paying the bill, especially when the actual cost is not yet known.

The problem I see with some info perhaps being reserved for the (paying) members is what about the new people, or the lurkers. I hit the site from a search engine and thought almost immediately "i've struck gold here", if the same quality of information is not quite as easily accessible then the new visitors may find less to keep them interested in WmW, less reason to subscribe and potentially worst of all there will be one less valued member of the community to put back in the kind of help they got out of it.

I would say imho that the best options are text adverts, or as bobking mentions, being "sponsored" by people wishing to market their services/tools via being reviewed.