<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by flyertalk:
The management at Dividend Miles is concerned about the sharing of targeted promotion codes</font>
It seems to me that if US is so concerned about this, they should have taken the responsibility to track what promos each member was eligible for and only accept those codes and award those points. Since some promos are targeted, some are not, some people may have been targeted but not realized it, the bonus code thread serves a legitimate use. People should be able to attempt to register for any code, the airline with their IT staff and programmers should be able to configure their systems to accept or reject those attempts based on individual eligibility.
That said, once they realized their mistake, they should do what we all have to do when we make one, accept the consequences, make changes to assure it doesn't happen in the future and move on. If they feel that they need to back out some points, so be it, but don't blame us for the mistake. They should realize that wild threats to freeze accounts won't benefit them in any way.