"What you were quoted no doubt expressed the intent of U/C"
Subject to your "interpretation".
"U/C is not meat, it is lard"
I would suggest the opposite is true when debating a BBS-v-UC. Go browse some of the "trip reports" on this site...or the "travel advice" ("rOaTan sux bra"). Between this board and the 2 others I frequent (1 being Rodales) there are very FEW useful reports that cover locations in depth. The UC info is well packaged and catagorized in a format that I find useful.
"I have to say, I don't subscribe but my 70 year old mother does. I apprieciate the newsletter more than the chapbook. As mentioned the chapbook is outdated and filled with reports of only the most expensive operations, this is probably due to the fact that older folks, as a rule, don't rough it as much as the whippersnappers."
Don't get overly mad at me but you obviously have not READ anything in either the Chapbook or online. Unless of course the most "expensive operations" include Blackbeards, Easy Goin, and others in great detail with very consistent reviews.
Bottom line...if you don't like it...it is your $$$. I support the publication because I like the style, the writing, and the independence (insofar as possible for a commercial publication). Having said all that should Mr Davidson be snooping you may wish to heed the idea of a members BBS.
Oh yeah....
"But I pray that you are still diving when you are"
You are DAMN skippy
...but I have a long way to go yet!