That thread really is a blast from the past! I had completely forgotten about it.

To correct my earlier post: it was a five-month period, May through September, and it was in 2001 (the 20th-anniversary year), not 2000.

I had 37,417 BIS miles in those five months, which doesn't seem like much for something like this.

I agree that AA will probably come up with something, but they may wait to see what sort of behavior they want to encourage in a few months. Given the current state of the airline industry, it may not be quite as generous as that one: they gave away 400 million miles!