Oh boy, this is a tough one.

Not sure where we to stand in this issue.

On one hand, we have the sanctity of the SPAM forum , where only discuss points, miles, other types of loyalty currency. Which as of late, they have dried out, and the fact that iDine has its own forum, has decreased the amount of posts that could certainly fit into that category

jsm and I have discussed this issue before, allowing the posting of freebies in the forum, because of the lack of traffic, and the fact that many of us don't really frequent the above mentioned sites that offer this type of threads. I always thought it was nice that someone gave us a heads up when a bargain was out there.

But now, we have the ipod, gmail and the flat screen threads. I have personally dedicated some time and effort to the gmail thread, trying to organize it, and the fact that is a free service (invitation only), thought it was a good thing for the community. I am not so sure about the ipod and flat screen ones.

These threads have attracted many newcomers to FT.Whether this is good or bad I have no idea, all we can hope is that every member that joins FT, be for an ipod or asking how the AA Gold Status challenge works, becomes a member and contributes to this community.

The ipod thread, needless to say is getting out of control, and I might have to do something about it. Not sure, but enforcing rules in this type of thread is somewhat difficult.

The 100 post limit in SPAM, I am not sure which way I would go, who knows, we might be turning away the next Flyertalk Evangelist because he couldn't sign up for an ipod

This is probably the longest post of my life