Without knowing the reason why Randy suddenly decided to change his mind again and reverse his reversal of Nov 2004, there's no way I can form an opinion.

On one hand, I honestly believe that it was the large number of counting threads that bothered him. I know that they started bothering me and I missed some topics (such as a sick child of another poster) because I was wading through all those posts. If I noticed, I can only imagine what people using the "new posts" function thought.

I said it in the other thread, and I'll say it again in this one, IMHO and with limited information, instead of dealing with users he is simply stopped allowing posts in Omni to count. I don't blame him. He's a busy man and is the only mod for Omni.

That said, it really doesn't matter to me one way or the other if they count or not. However, if they are NOT to count, there are plenty of other forums that have OT posts as well as entire forums that are not part of the core Miles & Points forums. They should not count as well.

I know I value the legal advice I received in Omni just as much as the point earning advice I received in the Hyatt forum.