I hate to do this, but feel compelled.......the conspiracy of these types of posts lately have been the work of none other than 'The Freddie Awards." It seems that several programs have used their email membership lists to urge people to vote in this years Freddies, which many of them did, since it was only a click away. With the final Freddie Award ballot count to exceed 200,000 (last year was 104,000) and the fact that 'freddieawards.com' lives on the same server as this board, you can imagine the stress the server has been under (it has run in redline for more than two weeks now). We never knew if, when or where these email ballot surges might have been coming, so have endured the "brown out" of server capabilities and have for the last week had a person assigned to cleaning up the multiple posts. So, if any of you have exhibited this behavior in dire straights of inflating your post numbers, the truth is, you're about to be pruned back - sorry. Any besides, the more you post, the more expensive it is for me to offer the board to you - so please make sure it's worth the time of your fellow FlyerTalkers.......at least, make sure it's 2 cents worth.

So as Paul Harvey would say - now you know the rest of the story. But I do like the conspiracy theory. Actually, the conspiracy theory I like is the one that many of you have banded together to form a Denial Of Service campaign to keep me so busy sending people to timeout and addressing warnings, that you can sneek in to the House of Miles and have your own 20th Frequent Flyer Birthday Ball. Hey, it's just a rumor right? Tell me it's not true, please...... Cheers.