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Message: <blockquote data-quote="brianfm" data-source="post: 1342623" data-attributes="member: 11997">Hi DafiThe board started as an open board and was made subscription so as to allow it to have the wide and informal remit that everyone (at least most anyway) seems to want to keep.  There were certainly a few comments passed by a few board members as to content when it was an open forum and they were not all positive.  Hence the subscription.  I do see your point and I pesonallySP) would be happy with an open board so that more people joined, but my feeling is the same problem would arise unless content was changed and as I say, most seem happy with the way it is.  I suppose some might argue that if we made the board open again, then why have it at all, and why not just join in the other forums?</blockquote>