Originally Posted by
hhoope01
The reason your original version was removed was because it contained codes that might cause problems for some corporations from persons wrongfully using their codes. (I'll leave the discussion around whether Marriott should actually be checking ids rather than worrying about a website showing codes that are easy to find to better heads than mine.)
If there are issues (i.e. there are some corporate codes that shouldn't be in the list) then I will remove them. But if Marriott doesn't have any issues with any of the codes currently listed, then I'm not going to remove anything.
If I recall correctly and its been what 3 years since my thread was removed; it was removed because IBM requested of Marriott or Randy or the powers that be to remove either 1. the IBM code or the entire thread; I'll have to go back and see if I still have that pm with the details.
But I wonder after three years why you are deciding now to do this scrub of the codes? I would think if there is a problem either Marriott or the vendor would have contacted IB to have it removed? Are you trying to be the MR good cop here?
Ok I found the PM; it was in April of 2007 where IBM initiated pressure on Marriott who pressured FT on the corporate codes. We agreed to take down the codes and if i put them up else where (at the time I was thinking of a yahoo site but went elsewhere) I would be allowed to let FT'ers know where that was posted; I still have the PM telling me this. I'm not going to post a private PM's details but that was it in a nutshell; Right now there are two public places where this information is sitting; one is very googlable as shown in threads above and the other is on a site similar to this one. I will leave it at that and hope that this thread (and the google thread) stay up as I do have the written go ahead to do this.