<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by blackjack-21:
Am I wrong, or was this the longest time that FT has been down?
Pheew, all day on Saturday till a short time ago. What happened?
Almost felt like being constipated. 
How do you spell relief: F-L-Y-E-R-T-A-L-K 
bj-21.
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Yep!
FT
IS a great place to visit!
As was once noted so very simply, and yet so very eloquently by "dgolds" a long while back and expressed in various ways by others...
"Folks, we have something rare and good going on here. Let's try and keep it that way."
FWIW, IMHO, from my limited sense of what has lead to a possibly decreasing level of participation of "prominent" FT'ers of the past, it has been the increasing flames, bitterness and acrimony that causes it.
As I'd noted previously, politely offering a few suggestions to consider
prior to criticizing other FT'ers:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum73/HTML/000338.html