Maybe that is why Randy wanted someone to watch his back Remember your promise Catman Incidentally that was for a proposal to create an extra forum, which is exactly the opposite of what Merry is proposing. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum73/HTML/000089.html

I have been here from the start with two monikers (pgupta011, PG). In a sense I can relate to what Merry is saying, although I feel that the problem is more a problem of growth. Some of the people (Rudi, PremEx) are still posting a lot, but as a percentage of total posts, it is less.

I am not sure if eliminating forums will help. Partly because folks have got used to posting. I am all for abolishing OMNI, but will folks still post what they are posting on OMNI to the "super" forum. If so, it will not increase the focus. And for some forums like say community, I actually prefer a separate forum, since I rarely visit it, and having a large number of forums is good because then I can just visit the ones of interest. Merry, if I understand what you are saying about taking it off-line, that would likely not be welcomed by a large number of people, some of whom have already posted here, though no one has come flat out against it probably in deference to you.

"The Buzz" is supposed to be the forum for discussion of FF programs.

Mileage earning opportunities have not decreased, since the web has grown a lot and the web sites are throwing a lot of freebies and incentives.

I agree with the comments on beating the airlines/reps and the publishing of letters, but some people find the letters very useful. To each their own.

It is hard to find things sometime. We need a better search engine, and possibly even a cataloging mechanism like Yahoo. But that is probably too much work.

I agree that baobab is missed.

[This message has been edited by PG (edited 03-05-2000).]