TravelManKen,

I maintain that I appreciate your position and am responding due to that respect. I agree that it's wise to e-mail great offers amongst each other first, and later share the wealth with all of FT (I witheld comments all thru the "list" and "new list" threads and never once sought inclusion with either, although Bean's thread was a riot).

Your post raising the ethics question, without betraying anything sensitive, came under fire by the "list" police as they wanted to shut you down. Their attempts to dismiss this issue kept non"list" FTers out of the loop.

There was mention of a get-together of select FTers in SAN, but no posts to Randy's FT Community Events. The WSJ knew of this "event" when, where, and by who before your original post. Thank you for posting the article.

My previous post was nothing more than reactionary questions to Jane Costello's article. Sharing info within the "list" is fine as long as this info can later be shared with all of FT; holding out on FT only diminishes Randy's open to all community.