I, too, realize that FlyerTalk is free to us, and I am very grateful for this wonderful service. However, from what Randy had said, the first outage occurred because of a processor change. In all fairness, why was no one on the boards here forwarned that this would happen? I thought FT went down for some hardware or network failure reason. I feel that when the FT people will know that FT will be down, I think it would not be hard, as a courtesy, to post a thread or announcement a day or two in advance. Just to let its users (free or otherwise) know. Just my opinion.