Dear Nanook

Your rate of Mypoints accrual seems a bit low. Here's a few tips that will help accellerate your Mypoints accrual.

1. Join Xoompoints at www.xoompoints.com - this program is almost identical to Mypoints and holds out the promise, albeit at a slower rate, of extra points which you could convert to another airlines points/miles.

2. Visit www.talkcity.com and get 200 points weekly for answering the 20 survey questions there. That's 10,400 or so points per year.

3. Keep all your bonusmail and at regular intervals click all the links again - some are 7 days, some 30 days, some 365 days

4. Click both the yes AND no links on your bonusmail

5. Check out the points offers at Mypoints for trying things out. There are many free services that give you 100 points for signing up

6. Do the 25 points survey in the Mypoints survey section currently

7. Click everything that looks remotely like a point earning link again on January 1 2000

8. Check your profile at Mypoints and select all the categories that you can say you have an interest in. More categories = more bonusmail = more points presumably

One final tip - in my humble opinion one of the best conversions of poinst for miles is the 20,000 points for 25,000 vacationmiles whcih can in turn be converted to 25,000 American Airlines miles.

Visit the AA site and if not a member join up. Then go to the redemption area and study the various awards available for use on various partner airlines. There are some gems in there.

Hope this helps

cheers Peter