Fair enough I take your point, but unless the progression on the membership fee is altered, I'm sure I'm not the only one who doesn't feel inclined to cough up for a half a year's membership in November - which presumably means actually only getting one month's membership.
I fully appreciate that the club has the right to make any rules it deems appropriate and I don't know what the grounds were for setting things up so that non-members can post, but only in their own threads. It strikes me as a bit odd though and it certainly doesn't help that the "Posting Rules" don't actually reflect this situation, leading to considerable confusion and irritation until someone explains the situation. (I fully appreciate that there may be technical reasons for this, but it doesn't alter the fact that it's extremely irritating!)
A final point is that while I no longer have a Vincent and am unlikely to have one in the future, I was a very active paying member for well over twenty years and have done my fair bit to help putting Vincents in the limelight (in the 1980s/90s), I haven't forgotten everything I learned whilst I was active and it does seem a bit odd that, when I try to pass on some of this knowledge, the club deems it necessary to lay stones in my path.
Cheers
Roy