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Old Aug 20, 2010 | 5:53 am
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Originally Posted by louie-m
But for how long? Surely it's better to sacrifice somewhere between 50 - 100 miles and not have to worry about ANA blocking the workaround?
I disagree. I'll go with what works today and not worry about them changing it tomorrow. When I initially posted my GreasyMonkey script workaround a number of folks suggested that just posting a mile to the account was better because it was more likely to "beat the system." It wasn't.

We simply do not know what - if any - the next change that NH is going to make to their system is. No one would have predicted that they would try to limit access. No one predicted that they'd change the number of miles required (though I did suggest it was possible a couple times and was laughed at). And now we have no idea if they will change the number again or close either of the known functioning loopholes or even shut down the tool completely (highly unlikely).

I'll take what I know to be working over speculation and FUD. And when something changes I'll worry about it then. With the number of highly motivated people we have here on FT odds are we'll come up with the next solution pretty quickly, just like we did for this current situation.
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