# A note about resubscribing (a good note)! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 18, 2005, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-about-resubscribing-a-good-note/322217 "2005-09-18T14:50:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-about-resubscribing-a-good-note/322217/1 "2005-09-18T14:50:54Z")
Due to my upcoming absence from the SDMB, which would span my “end of subscription date”, I decided to pre-emtively resubscribe. My original subscribe date: 4-19-2004 My original expiration date: 4-19-2006 I thought that if I resubscribed _now_, my new expiration date would end up being _today_ in 2006: 9-18-2006 Apparently, that ain’t the case. My new expiration date is: 4-28-2007. Apparently, when you “buy a year”, it doesn’t default to the current date, but tacks it onto the date of your original registration. Efficiency at it’s finest. 😃 Tripler Thank you **Jerry** and **Cecil**! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-about-resubscribing-a-good-note/322217/2 "2005-09-18T14:55:09Z")
Weren’t there a couple on instances where the board was down and the Mods added days to paid subscriptions? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-about-resubscribing-a-good-note/322217/3 "2005-09-18T15:00:59Z")
Tripler: May god hold you in the hollow of his hand and bring you home safely. Mr. Blue Sky: Yes. We had a board outage that added something like 2 weeks to the initial Charter Member offer, which is why the subscription expiration date for most people in 2005 was 04-28-2005. We do strive to give value, and a major outage like we had should be compensated for. your humble TubaDiva ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-about-resubscribing-a-good-note/322217/4 "2005-09-18T15:04:43Z")
Tripler: May god hold you in the hollow of his hand and bring you home safely. Mr. Blue Sky: Yes. We had a board outage that added something like 2 weeks to the initial Charter Member offer, which is why the subscription expiration date for most people in 2005 was 04-28-2005. We do strive to give value, and a major outage like we had should be compensated for. your humble TubaDiva ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-about-resubscribing-a-good-note/322217/5 "2005-09-18T23:24:44Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Tripler: May god hold you in the hollow of his hand and bring you home safely. I thank you. I’ll leave God for the afterthought, 'cause I’ll have a rifle and don’t exactly intend on meeting him soon. But I do thank you. Although I did wonder what was going on with the ‘end-of-the-month’ thing. I thought it weird that while I subscribed in the middle of the month, it was _extended_ a bit. C’est la vie. Tripler I don’t speak a whole lotta French. Vous les vouz couchez avec mou? ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-about-resubscribing-a-good-note/322217/6 "2005-09-19T03:53:05Z")
> [@](#): > > Vous les vouz couchez avec mou? Couchez? Couchez? Cout! ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-about-resubscribing-a-good-note/322217/7 "2005-09-19T06:00:09Z")
I’m more worried about the “mou” Fetchez le vache! ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-about-resubscribing-a-good-note/322217/8 "2005-09-19T06:47:49Z")
> [@Tapioca Dextrin](#): > > I’m more worried about the “mou” > > Fetchez le vache! Shouldn’t that be “_Feltchez_ la vache”? ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-about-resubscribing-a-good-note/322217/9 "2005-09-19T10:58:27Z")
Nah. If you’re going to _feltchez_ around here, the object is usually _chèvre_, not _vache_.