cigarman,

After looking carefully over this thread, I've found very little anti-CO rhetoric here! The vast majority of the discussion here has been directly related to the thread topic, new bonuses, the relationship between Priceline and bonuses/upgrades, bonuses in the Prestige Pack, bonus eligibility, and targeted mailings.

Yes, Vulcan did add a minor postscript about the letter-writing campaign against the anti-HoKeY upgrade rules. So what??? It was incidental to his otherwise on-topic and typically helpful remarks! Very similar to those of us who had put "deny" signatures in our posts in the past, but then I guess that bent you outta shape too!

A first-time poster did make an extremely inane remark about delivering "another knock out punch to One Pass." But this has absolutely nothing to do with your accusation that "the same 5 people are putting anti CO comments on many threads because of a change in the lowest BF fare eligible for a upgrade."

Another newbie did take a swipe (legitimately so, I believe) over CO's practice of the mass mailing of unsolicited status. This had nothing to do with complaining against BF upgrade requirements, which seem to upset you so much. And his comment flowed out of the topic thread of mass mailings of bonuses. I didn't think praise of CO policy was a requirement for being "on-topic."

All NJDavid did was respond to this comment about CO's handing out status indiscriminately. Let's see...the thread topic is "New Bonuses." Everything here has been about bonuses or the lack of them. And I believe comped status could be considered a bonus. I didn't read a single word in NJDavid's post specifically against CO's new HoKeY upgrade "enhancements"! He merely responded to another poster on the topic of massive mailing of unsolicited comps. You may not have liked his post, but it was on-topic.

Now that we're on the subject of off-topic posts, what does your uncalled-for and irrelevant swipe at a poster you happen to hold a grudge against, yet hasn't posted in the CO forum for over a month have to do with the current topic?

Vulcan and NJDavid have only posted one time each within this thread, yet both have contributed significantly to the topic. OTOH, you have posted three times here, and not a single one of your posts has added anything at all to this topic!!! Now who's ranting off-topic??? Your posts have done far more to turn the topic away from that stated and in the direction of BF upgrades on HoKeY fares than all of the rest of the combined posters here!

cigarman, when I first discovered this board, your posts were always among my favorites. Opinionated, yes, but that's what made them fun! But they were always rational and intelligent. And they were tolerant of divergent opinions that one might not expect to be published in the CO flight magazine. In fact, back then you were fairly critical of CO yourself.

Now, I know you fly a grueling schedule, and perhaps it's starting to get to you. Maybe you've just had one too many servings of tri-colored pasta. But if you keep pouncing on anyone and everyone who utters an unkind word about CO, then you'll just have to change your screen name to IM4Cigars!

P.S.—With apologies to happymob and PG. However, I had already written over 90% of this post prior to both of yours. And I do feel this is something that needs to be said. However, I will refrain from posting anything further non-bonus related in this thread.

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