Originally Posted by Dovster

There are two conflicting schools of thought in internet advertising:

1. The first school feels that the more people you can reach the more your website is worth. This, in fact, is the theory behind spam -- just send out tons of e-mail and you will be certain to sell enough of your product. If this is correct then somebody who comes on here only for an iPod, or to tell us that George Bush is going to blow up the world, or that that John Kerry is Osama Bin Ladin's cousin is just as valuable as the most knowledgable frequent flier.

2. The second school believes in demographics. It feels that you waste time, money, and effort is reaching people who are not apt to buy your product. To this mind, frequent flyers are not a good market for trailer park advertisements but are incomparable for airlines or hotels.

It is Randy's right to decide which school he belongs to and to encourage posters based on that decision.

Originally Posted by Sirecca

The next Dovsters, if you will.

Originally Posted by patrick finnigan

Sure why not. Actually, the founding fathers and chartering folks could simply segment all of those with 100 plus postings (regardless of the post-value and general interest) and call that group flyertalk I and close it to any additional newbies. You could kinda 'chat amoungst yourself'. Or do away with the SPAM section all together as it does not seem to have much applicability to the primary purpose of the site anyway.

Originally Posted by neville_83

Gee... you don't say so! I can get a free ipod? Wow that's really good news! Now go read the previous 100+ pages to see what we've been talking about you n00b

These newbs are starting to piss me off by posting their referral links here without following the rules and expecting people to just 'help' them, or even worse... leeching off this site's users by telling us to use (yet) another new conga line that's just started up. Mods should just start deleting posts immediately.