Just like everything else in life, people have to decide why they join anything. I have never joined because I feel like I get the same benefits if not more by being a member of NASO. To join something and have nothing sent to your house is a stretch for me. I guess you can always copy things, but that is additional money out of my pocket to be able to read something that is posted in those articles. So I have always passed up to this point.
I just like NASO better because I get a magazine every month, and I get the opportunity to buy more things at a discount that is very insightful and useful well after I have read the information. I guess I just like things you can actually touch and feel and hold (insert joke

), and using the internet is not my way of accomplishing that.
Peace