Hey John
It is hard to dump something that you're so comfortable with using isn't it...
I never had any need for the few options that the Paid Eudora had over the Sponsored mode, and the (very few) ads were just a small box in the lower left corner that you never noticed anymore after a week anyway. Totally unobtrusive with only 5 or so ads from reputable companies and they were so small that I never thought twice about them.
When Eudora went open source that tiny box just became a Eudora symbol...I think it took me a month to actually realize that there was nothing happening down there anymore...LOL! But Sponsored mode has every feature I could ever need really, so it's been perfect for me for over 10 years now, I really wouldn't ever use anything else now, it's just too good and you know why I feel like that don't you..
That's good about CoU also, I find that security sites that actually "Teach" and certify users for things are always the best you can find for that purpose. I've taught at HijackThis forums, TomCoyote.org (now WhatTheTech), Besttechie.net and Spywareinfo.com, teaching people the intricacies of the HJT logs. Many of them coming in thought that they knew pretty much everything about HJT logs, but once they got into it they quickly realized just how little they actually knew and realized that the teaching sites were an important step in their security background.
I definitely want to spend some time at CoU but I have 3 sites I Admin and 4 others I'm senior Mod at, plus a bunch of other sites I hang my hat in now & then, so I have to make some time soon. Anyone know a good Time Machine maker?
Later Bud