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Old Mar 17, 2010 | 8:40 am
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Originally Posted by NickB
You may want to look again at what you posted and what I was replying to.
If you go back to asking TB to create a forum, I point you back to my original reply: there would be just as much point in TB voting to create an "IB only" forum as there is in TB voting to create an "Obama only" forum: TB is not IB and has no power to determine how IB want to communicate. Even if TB created such a forum, this would not in itself result in IB staff using it in pretty much the same way as if TB decided to create an 'Obama only' forum, this would not automatically result in Obama participating in FT and deciding to answer posts in that putative forum. The net result would be, as I suggested in my original answer, that the forum, if TB were unwise enough to create it in such circumstances, would be little more than a rant and rave forum.

Before there is any point whatsoever in TB discussing the creation of such a post, there would have to be a desire on the part of IB to use such a device. The point about posting the issue in ORP is that RP is better placed than TB to communicate with IB on this. Until it is established that IB would be interested in such a move, it is a pure waste of time and energy.
Surely you read the transcripts of the various chats and whatnot Randy and IB had with us while Randy was selling this place to IB, yes? They expressed a distinct desire to have an active communication channel open between FT and IB. Based on my review of TB's actions, there has been little except campaign rhetoric regarding this issue. IB is on record as having requested such a channel. Read the chats; you can start here: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/only-...nternet+brands
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