Originally Posted by Wingnut
Re the mailing lists: I don't think anything the TB does could or should affect things that happen "off-board". I specifically didn't mention mailing lists in my first post for that very reason. Might I respectfully ask that if others want to have a discussion of non-FT mailing lists they do so on a different thread, as I'd prefer it if this one didn't get shut down.
Wingnut, I typed my last post while you were typing the one I am quoting now. I think I explained my reasoning for why I would suggest to make it a requirement for users of that forum not to re-post these error fares to mailing lists in my previous post. I don't see why that should lead to the thread being shut down.
Again, I believe the two things are related:
If you say
Originally Posted by Wingnut
I think there is a case to be made for fare errors only being visible to users with a certain time / post qualification (like Coupon Connection and Omni). This would hopefully mean that such fares were available for a longer period of time, and would benefit more FTers so would be in the interests of the wider membership of FT. Currently, there is the potential for some new posters to exploit such errors in a manner which is against the interests of the wider membership.
then a sub-forum will not help at all if a minute after something appears in the sub-forum, someone re-posts it to a mailing list with tens of thousands of users - then you might as well not have the sub-forum.
I am saying this in a completely non-confrontational way and only picking up your logic.