"One thing I do like, however, that there are a few places that are private, have to be a paid member to post."
I can understand the attraction of that -- but even though it may feel private, anyone who pays for a subscription can still be lurking and reading your posts, right? (Or is there some procedure for having to actually "join" those forums -- I can't remember!) At any rate, you could always open up a Cubit and actually make it private for a group of people, then you really
would have control over who is reading the posts.
