I am, for once, actually happy to have to disagree with another FTer. About a month and a half ago, a fellow FTer (whom I didn't know in advance, btw.) PMed me, since he thought that based on my postings he had something I would appreciate. Something which is usually traded on CC against something-of-non-trivial-value, but which he offered for free to me since he thought I'd appreciate it / put it to good use...just like that.

So (and I am a relative newbie as an active poster / registered user on FT) that "old-time-spirit" is still around. Maybe diluted, but it's still around in some good people......