Wine Spectator Online outage for the last week

The winespectator.com website went down completely for many days (Thu 9/14 to Tues 9/18). Initially there was just nothing at the site. Then by Sat, they put up a new home page indicating they knew the site was down. There was no information, but there were three links in case you wanted to buy a ticket to some WS or Cigar event. Beyond that the page said little else. Why these links and no other content? I supposed, it was most important to keep the money flowing in to M Shanken's sites.

Now the big question is whether they will extend our online subscriptions by at least the number of days the site went down. So far nothing... but we'll see. It seems to me that if you sign up for a newspaper for a year and they don't deliver for 6 days, you should get those 6 days back. Same with a paid online subscription to an online community.

But WS is an old world media with a new world, aka online, presence. We'll see what they do. If after a week there is no mention of extending our online expiry, I'll step up to the plate.