Originally Posted by
MaxVO
While it's a great advice at the moment, it's rather irresponsible to accent it with "never" in bold. The best practices can change at any time, and the above advice would've been false just a few months ago.
I seriously doubt the OP meant that advice to stand for all time. Right now, and for the foreseeable future, you absolutely do not say anything of that sort. That of course may eventually change, in which case the advice will change. But sadly, I don't see things getting better in the miles and points game very often. Usually, when they get worse, they stay that way right up until they get even worse than that.