The phenomenon that we are observing is basically the "Usenetification" of FlyerTalk. I have lurked for MANY years in rec.travel.air and, indeed, only learned about the existence of FT from a thread that tangentially referred to FT last winter. Rec.travel.air has some very meaningful content and some superb contributors but more often it’s a hopeless morass of crossposts, vulgarity and trolls. FT is not nearly so bad but as the number of contributors increase, some small percentage of them will unfortunately exert the same "usenet" effect. This effect, by definition, will be way out of proportion to their numbers. It really doesn't take very many contaminants to render a wine undrinkable. I am most definitely not a proponent of censorship but perhaps FT version 7.0 could design some type of "plonking" feature that would enable us to filter out posts derived from those that we PERSONALLY deem undesirable.