I had been receiving the [email protected] e-mail for years before the current version — and possibly all previous versions — of FlyerTalk existed. Links to threads on FlyerTalk started appearing in those e-mails. That is probably how I first found out about FlyerTalk.

I don’t know why, but I missed my chance to truly become an original FlyerTalk member. I guess it was because I did not believe in actively participating in Internet chat rooms or bulletin boards — until I was finally compelled to contribute to FlyerTalk back in December of 2002.

Here I am today — and I still receive those e-mails to this date...