Originally Posted by ClueByFour

I think Randy makes an interesting point here which has all sorts of merit.

I'm one of the voices who would gladly pay for a premium FT experience (eg, sans the ads)--it actually takes longer for me to view it now because my machine spends time trying to contact ad servers that are hostnamed out. I also understand the need to subsidize the free service that FT represents somehow.

I guess I don't have a feeling one way or another about the "ads in posts" because I've never seen them.