Journalspace is a free service. Anybody who agrees to and abides by the journalspace terms of use is welcome to maintain a free account for publishing a journal or blog. Journalspace generates the revenue necessary to cover operating expenses by offering pro access. All new members are automatically given pro access for one month. After that point, the account remains active, but certain features are disabled. Pro access can be re-enabled by making a contribution. Some of the features that are exclusive to pro access include: use of journalspace webmail use of the post-by-mail feature use of LiveJournal posting programs use of w.bloggar and other XML-RPC posters the ability to keep a photo gallery the ability to see who has you on their list of favorites access to journal statistics (although you can still see your most recent ten readers) the ability to answer interview questions placing polls in your journal Syndicating your journal using RSS 2.0 If your account's pro access expires, the pro access features are only temporarily disabled. For example, any photos in your gallery won't be removed if your pro access expires. Likewise, your journalspace webmail account will remain open for 60 days after your pro access expires. If you re-up to pro access within those 60 days, your webmail messages will be intact and you can continue using webmail as before. If you move to pro access after 60 days, your original webmail account will be gone, but you have the option of creating a new one. There is absolutely no obligation to upgrade to pro access once your free month has expired. You may continue to use your account with the reduced features for as long as you like. If you delete your account after your free month has expired and create a new account, you will not receive another free month of pro access -- the free month is per person, not per account. Non-pro journals have a "hosting provided by journalspace" link at the bottom of the page. When readers follow this link and sign up for a journalspace account of their own, you'll get a referral credit