[QUOTE=dhammer53;9199232]Sorry for posting, since I'm still an outsider.
But to answer your question, I was recently reminded by an old member NJDavid, (who by chance I sat next to on a new years day UA flight LAX/JFK), that he was one of a small group that gave Randy the Flyertalk name. I believe Catman and PremEx were part of that group. Paws up. ^

Anyone? Is that ringing a bell?

Humm... I can answer that question my friend dhammer.

In 1999, NJ David, Rudi and I (and PremEx too although he was not in NYC at the time) decided on a special "thank you" to Randy. I'll let NJDavid tell the story:

Quote: "Rudi, Catman and myself have completed the necessary paperwork to give Randy Petersen a gift - Very early on, wwe reserved "flyertalk.com" as a domain, and will officially present it in person in the near future. The Inside Flyer team will (I'm told) shortly be developing the "Flyertalk community" concept, including places to better display photos of our meetings."

I believe we officially presented the domain to Randy at the PIP in Nov of 1999.
The original thread is here... and if you click on the candids you can see FT-ers getting together in the early years:


http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...yertalk+domain

Ah, those were special times.

As I said repeated... we won't be here if we can't pause to remember the HISTORY of what happened to get us here (if that makes sense.)

IT's nice to reflect back and look forward.

But one sad thing... I Miss COMMANDER CATCOP I'll have to find him to make a cameo for FT's 10th anniversary.