A short recapitulation of the "OMNI"-award-history:

The award (first called the Emmett_Nancy_Roberto award) was born at an inaugurational meeting (Catman and Rudi) at a New York steakhouse on Oct-19th-98. The ad-hoc committee wanted to honor Flyertalk-contributions that either are unique, extraordinary, or just helping us to earn miles, to entertain the "mileage-addicts" or "just let one’s tongue run away with one".

The committee did decide to (try to) follow these "guide-lines" in their award-decision-making-process:

The awards should: [*]not make anybody jealeous (CatMan and Rudi don't want to have ennemies here) [*]not embarass the winner [*]not have any real money-value[*]not make any bribes possible (I will not give you my bank account, nor will CatMan) [*]honor contributions that either are unique,extraordinary, or just helping us to earn miles, to entertain the mileage-addicts" or "just let one’s tongue run away with one" being/creating no problem(s) for our hosts of FlyerTalk be fun, beiing typically in the pioneer sense of the Internet free and without needing strict rules and eventually land/end in the hands of lawyers

The first award went (after nancy, roberto and emmett didn't claim their reward in time) to our hosts of the FlyerTalk-board in Colorado-Springs.

Here is a list of the award-winners so far (excluding the many Flyertalk individuals ("oldies") who were thanked for their individual contributions and received a special OMNI-holiday-present from the committee in dec-98):

The Hall of Fame of the OMNI-award
[*]FlyerTalk for hosting our board http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/000304.html [*]NJDavid for his Flyertalk photo-gallery http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/000871.html [*]DJLawman for his (legal aspects) advice http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/000476.html [*]JayJ for an outstanding Box-fight between merry and JayJ at http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum53/HTML/000007.html [*]baobab for her thread "who we all are" http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/000795.html [*]BlondeBomber for his StarAlliance-comparison-sheet http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/001124.html [*]PremEx for his "party in Paradise = PiP" homepage http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/000039.html [*]Adam Burke from Hilton HHonors and MJW (Mary Joe) with Northwest Airlines, both being honored for not just "lurking/reading" but taking action in the joint interest of us FlyerTalkers (and customers) and their companies (Northweast and Hilton.) http://talk.flyertalk.com/forum/Foru...ML/000070.html [*]bryan at webflyer from InsideFlyer Magazin for his Flyertalk birthday-article in the july-99 issue http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/000112.html [*]Tropical Flyer for her tireless work and ALOHA spirits with the logistics for the Party in Paradise, '99 in Honolulu: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/000370.html [*]Jon Toner for his entertaining and often moving and personal posts about his travels and his homelife: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/000430.html [*]arturo, for being the Court Jester and honest commentator of Flyertalk „Someun who doz drive uz nutz sometimez butt es likea gladflea en a filasafurr who telz itz like itz iz" http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/000604.html [*]EA/AA/FA and UA Cris for constant work on the respective airline forums (AA & UA) to help us answering questions and giving tips. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum95/HTML/000494.html [*]jailer and QuietLion with a joint OMNI we honour the thread "Simple Pleasures, Heaven and a Lion Contest" full of humour and whit, in the old-FlyerTalk-tradition http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum81/HTML/001236.html and Quietlion being the 'base' of jailers thread with his constantly brilliant written 'trip-reports' http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum95/HTML/000614.html