Thumper - gee, it might have been because a posting about the AA Web site doesn't seem to fall into the category that MilesBuzz! is about. I think the forum description of MilesBuzz! says that the forum is about frequent flyer programs miles and points. Even I fail to see that a post about the AA Web site falls into that category unless you were to be more specific about a particular function of the AA Web site that had to do with the AAdvantage program. And even then I'd say it would seem the post to be more appropriate to the AA forum, rather than MilesBuzz!.

So, while I understand your comments and posting to be sort of light hearted, it still seems reasonable to me that you are solely responsible for the action to begin with. Had you used your experience and knowledge of FT on where to post the topic, it would still be relevant today.

Now, another thing you might have done was to send an email to me about any loading problems on the AA forum on FT. If you had, we may have been able to fix it sooner. See, we really aren't able to read every post in every forum every single day - which is why it's still cool that members would contact us personally should something be out of the ordinary. In the case of the AA forum - we were contacted by another member and took immediate action on the forum and it was fixed (a little corruption in one of the threads slowed things down). It was easy for us - just difficult without knowing.

So, to answer your question - it wasn't AA who highjacked the AA forum on FlyerTalk, it was mis-communication.

Hopefully this does explain a very reasonable side of the story. But if you need additional help with understanding the forum descriptions and the types of posts which make them up, let us know and we'll assign someone to help you. Its the least we can do to a long time member like yourself, or for that matter, even a new member.

[This message has been edited by Randy Petersen (edited 01-16-2003).]