The Rub and Sauce recipes have always been available for purchase not free since I've been hereBack in the day when you became a member you could just download the entire e-course as a .pdf file along with the 2 rub and bbq sauce recipes.
And the other thing is that the main smoking-meat website and the forums site are separate memberships or at least they used to be.
I still have the original.pdf files.I was able to download them after joining Smoking-Meat.com (not SMF) which cost something just don't remember how much.The Rub and Sauce recipes have always been available for purchase not free since I've been here