I had been lurking in rec.travel.air for several years when I came upon a post that alluded to this web site. Given that the aforementioned newsgroup can often resemble Omni on one of its nastier days, this discovery was a blessing and a revelation. Oh, I guess I shouldn't use words like that since FlyerTalk no longer assigns monikers such as "FT Evangelist."

That was nearly two years ago and within a week of my discovery, I found myself meeting and greeting 11 other FlyerTalk folk at Higgins Cafe in Portland:

http://www.flyertalk.com/archivesfr.shtml