[Nick]

I'm sorry that you had registration difficulty the night of the chat. Yours is I believe the only problem I've heard about, come to think of it. We actually had people registering and successfully activating their account within an hour prior to the chat, so I'm not sure what was responsible for the delay in your activation e-mail. :-(

Unfortunately, I just don't think it would be very fair of us to have members signing up and paying for the premium service as a means of supporting the board if we don't give them premium content to make such a membership level worthwhile. If there's no benefit to being a premium member, why sign up? This event seemed like the perfect kind of content to include in the premium section, but again we made the event itself available to everyone who wanted to participate because, as you said, we knew it would be something many Rams fans would be interested in.

Perhaps in the future we can have a window of time where the chat log or other content can be accessed by all members and then afterwards can be moved to the premium forum. It's something we'll certainly explore, but for now it simply would not be fair on our part to have members paying for exclusive privileges and content without actually getting some of our best content in return. Hopefully even if you disagree the explanation at least makes sense.