<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 at 15:27, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="gmail-m_-7117161849229781251moz-cite-prefix">Now it's purely about whether you spend money. If it's meant to
drive up KLI membership, what's the point? Okay, you paid for a
membership and now you can get your words, and that membership
gives you... well, about as much as it did before. Getting your
words isn't a perk of membership; it's the <i>point</i> of
membership. Which means it's still a pay-for-access scheme.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Counterpoint: The barrier to access used to be a lot higher. You had to physically travel to the {qep'a'}, which meant those with the most influence were primarily restricted to the United States, and even then only to certain regions.</div><div><br></div><div>Compared to that, $10 USD per year isn't a *huge* amount of money: </div><div><a href="https://www.kli.org/membership-account/membership-levels/">https://www.kli.org/membership-account/membership-levels/</a> </div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div></div>