First, a quick housekeeping note: Most posts on Your Intermittent Lex are free. There are sometimes posts just for paying subscribers. Most paid posts don’t even email free subscribers, because I don’t want to clog up your inboxes with posts you can’t read all of.

But business sense requires that sometimes free subscribers need to see premium posts, or they’ll never upgrade. A couple of you will be annoyed by posts like these and unsubscribe, and I’ll get an email notification that you’ve done so, and I’ll feel bad. Ideally, though, one of you will get motivated to upgrade, and I’ll feel like overall, the system works. You take the good, you take the bad.