I am not sure whether this has been discussed in the past, but I have a suggestion that will 1. hopefully improve speed and 2. allow the newly "combined" forums to be more active.

I see maybe about 20 forums that people will consider "active", then the others lay dormant for weeks, or even months.

That has caused me to think whether it would be a good idea to combine the less popular forums by region, eg [USA] [Asia] [S.America] and etc.

As a rough suggestion, for example...

USA: Aero California, Air Tran, Aloha Airlines, Frontier, Hawaiian, Midwest Express, National Express, Vanguard Airlines

Americas: Aero Mexico, Air Jamaica, BWIA, Latin Pass, Mexicana, Varig Airlines

Asia: ANA, Asiana, China Airlines, China Southern, EVA Air, JAL, Korean, Malaysia, Phillipine, THAI

Europe: Aer Lingus, Alitalia, Austrian, Finnair, Iberia, LOT Polish, TAROM

Middle-eastern: El Al, Emirates.

I mean no offence to people who regards any of the forums mentioned with particular importance, but IMHO the level of activity in those warrant such an action.

And a way to reduce the confusion between the different airlines "sharing" the forum would be to put the airline in every topic name. That should hopefully clear the confusion.

The same thoughts come to mind for the hotels and rental car forums, although I am pretty clueless as to how one might sort those.

Anyway, it was just an idea, I don't know whether it would stick or not. Hopefully people don't hate it too much... :-)

stargold

[Edited to include some more airlines that I missed out]

[This message has been edited by stargold (edited 11-03-2001).]