james: Your post strongly echoes suggestions I made a couple of months ago, but they didn't generate any interest at the time. See http://talk.flyertalk.com/forum/Foru...ML/000083.html

At this point, we are not a moderated board. There is informal policing (Commander Catcop) but no official guidelines for posting, at least that I am aware of.

As it is possible to join FlyerTalk without an e-mail address, or with a bogus e-mail address, notifying individual members can be problematic. I personally think it should be a requirement that you have to submit a valid e-mail address to participate in FT, but many others disagree with me on that. I participate on listservs which obviously require an e-mail address to join; I also read Usenet news, which requires no address verification. There's no "one right way" to do it. However, the listservs are far less susceptible to flame wars than the newsgroups.

BTW, for your reference, the thread I am referring to is http://talk.flyertalk.com/forum/Foru...ML/000146.html

I wonder if someone from InsideFlyer would like to join the discussion. Randy, Brian, anyone out there?

[This message has been edited by dgolds (edited 09-28-1999).]