Well Nathan Detroit …. we are told elsewhere your name is not Nathan and you are not from Detroit. Not that I care one jot, but of all people it is curious you take the utter cheek to ask anyone else here WHO they are, or why they are here.

I spend a GREAT deal more time on these boards than pretty well anyone else is one obvious answer. If I am logged on 20 or 50 times more than others it follows I will post more. This is my choice, and is NONE of your affair. Rudi and Doc have 8000-9000 posts each as I recall and are both very active so your comment is foolish.

Others with presumably wiser heads than yours are this morning urging posters on other boards to stick to TRAVEL related postings, not flames, or personal attacks, and they are succeeding, and yet you lob in with this one, despite that clear lead.

Why you have the sheer impertinence to post here bothers me. You might have taken the advice many feely give to ME and emailed this impertinent question in the first instance IMHO. I may have answered, I may not have, but THAT is surely the correct approach in the first instance.

This thread is WAY out of line IMHO unless you have altered your name by deed poll to Randy Petersen.

I had dinner last night in Sydney with Randy Petersen. For about 5 hours we had a nice evening on the town. A lovely guy. I asked him if he had ANY problem with my number of posts, or contents of my posts etc, and HE had none. He laughed it off and we had another beer. Randy had NO problem with them, and had every opportunity to raise anything he wished. Randy is a pretty easy going guy, but runs a VERY successful business, very well, and would I am sure have made a valid point if there were one to make. Randy similarly laughed it off I am advised when an FT’er in Asia touched on this general matter a night or so earlier.

When YOU run your own board sir, you get to start these threads I guess. And ONLY then. I politely point out to you this is the Randy Petersen forum, not the Nathan Detroit one.

I posted something simple a few days ago:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/003354.html

That has received 63 replies in a few days, and therefore probably 200-300 have signed up, as most do not acknowledge these promos on board, and many of those got a totally free Hilton Hotel night from it! For a few minutes work. I suspect Randy recognizes those kind of posts create lots of happy visitors to HIS site. You mention in your post this is someone else's "land", and you are wrong I submit.

Look at the names on that thread -- HEAPS of people you normally never see. They are often non elite flyers. They just cruise these boards looking for something useful for FREE for their future travels. And they appreciate it. They often say 'Thank You'. It gives them something nice in their day. It gives them a reason to visit Randy's boards. YOUR post does not.

The only negative poster recently on that Hilton thread has been one of the 'old boys club' just popped up trying to derail it off on a totally irrelevant tangent. WHY? Who knows. Some of the EXACT things IMHO that we should be promoting on these boards, like that Hilton 3000 points promo when they are rolling well, get deliberately derailed by regulars like that. Perhaps direct your question to him. Why is HE here?

I have done a search on Nathan Detroit and cannot see one post of YOURS recently that has assisted anyone with travel plans or mileage building. Maybe I missed something? Or maybe you just feel so superior that initiating this kind of thread appeals to you more?

If that is the case, my pity is truly with you.

The wiser heads on this board may wish to add their comments to your impertinent thread, in the hope it is the last such one raised.

Maybe this is the time to set a few standards around here?

And persons posting hereon using their REAL handles would be appreciated. The spate of fake user names without no email contact supplied is also a very distasteful development for obvious reasons, and MANY have concurred with me on that by email etc.


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[This message has been edited by ozstamps (edited 09-08-2000).]