Originally Posted by ClueByFour

OMNI is a part of FT. Members are not suddenly exempt from the TOS just because the happen to be a wealth of knowledge in an air, hotel, or car program. In fact, users are not exempt from the TOS regardless of how much they contribute to the dicussion of miles and points, period (this is IMHO, of course).

There is ample precedence for this, most of which revolves around decisions rendered by Randy himself as opposed to any of the current crop of moderators. This is not MHO, and one can read about it if one searches around.