Premex scribes:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Others who are embarrased, you never hear from again.</font>
Or only rarely...
The issue, for me, has always been a noise-to-signal ratio equation. As the noise rises (cacophony comes to mind, folks), the signal diminishes. And my own personal enjoyment of FT is directly related to strong signal, low noise.
And once again, it's incredibly friggin'
LOUD around here...
I don't know (nor do I want to know) the origins of the current noise. I do know that the noise ratio started dropping 34 months ago and has continued to drop to the point where FT has become an occasional place to visit, rather than an oft-visited site. While my own contributions to this "community" may not amount to much, it is just this type of behavior that keeps me from even typing in the flyertalk.com url...
A public aside to my friend NJDavid: while I greatly respect the principles behind your stand, you are pissing in the wind...
res ipsa loquitor
[edited for rusty UBB coding]
[This message has been edited by onefreeman (edited 03-01-2002).]