Well there are limits. How many Flyertalkers are there now? I'd love to meet them all but that isn't really possible as I have a life. I do meet new people from time to time and I of course "meet" and have great discussions with many people here in cyberspace.

However there is one negative point to FT Do's that hasn't been mentioned yet. They are mostly on weekends. For those of us who travel on business during the week and have families, the weekend is sacrosanct. If I were alone, I would love to jet away to spend an interesting weekend with some people I haven't met yet. However as I am not alone I prefer to jet home to loved ones instead.

All the Do's I hosted back in the 90's were in my home town so it was easy and I lived in a desirable destination which was easy to travel to (LGB). Now I live out in the French countryside which is nice, but not easy to get to and we don't have a bunch of large chain hotels.

Every once in a while someone puts up a note about a mid-week meeting for drinks in some city and I just happen to be in that city. In that case I ALWAYS try to attend. I wish there were more of these.