New Developments. Bella Noir of Stratics has posted on a couple of UO discussion sites that the pay service will allow access to all of the same information you are currently recieving for free. The differences are "No advertisement banners, no popup windows, no dhtml/java script ads, and the ability to customize the appearance of the front end page in your browser window. The OSI support staff will be reachable by both paying and non-paying visitors."
The content will be the same on both sides of the coin. Now that's better.
I still find it odd that OSI tells us our discussion boards are going away and that they will only respond on Stratics. THen 2 dyas later Stratics announces fees without supplying a description of what the fee covers. When a description comes out, it's still confusing.
Oh well, matter resolved. Can't say I am happy about the whole affair, but at least we know OSI can still be reached.