Suz and others,
Alisa joined the forum and did not have to pay. The site said it is free, but I am always leary of that.
If MSN is making a change, it is to make money. They use huge bandwidth and that is why they shut down chatrooms. They directed us to a paysite and I believe they will do this again. ( I think is was a sister site with a kickback) Why else would they want to dump all of the groups from the internet?
I think they would like to add us as paying members on their Windows Live group! We shall see, but I am convinced their (MSN) motivation is to allow them more paying bandwidth.
Itsme Wayne