I don't know about big brother... but I think that whoever owns the site gets to make the rules. I'm glad that whoever posts here has to be responsible for their words.

<BR>&quot;I think it will just make us accountable for what we post&quot;<BR><BR>and that is a bad thing?<BR><BR>Rich

I am confused. How does click on the sender's name bring up their old posts?<BR>Am I doing something wrong? All I get are the current posts from everyone.<BR>Thanks.

No, Rich it is not a bad thing. To quote Martha, &quot;it is a good thing&quot;.

The overall quality of the posted information has improved incredibly. I love the registration, wonder what took Fodor's so long. Fodor's owns this site and if they consider discussions of foreign policy outside the context of the traveler experience are not appropriate, they have every right to take those out. As far as posting that type of discussion, it doesn't bother me, I just choose not to read it/participate. Simple as that.

Daph<BR>I agree with you. I was also often laughing behind the computer and. sometimes it was very funny on Fodors. I think I miss those trolls...

sj asks<BR>&gt;...How does click on the sender's name bring up their old posts?&lt;<BR> It doesn't.<BR> use Text Search.<BR><BR>

Sorry,<BR> I meant to say &quot;IF it doesn't...&quot;

i did a text search of my screenname and discovered at least one error....that I had contributed to a thread on bed and breakfasts in Missouri. Now..what do I know about bed and breakfasts in MIssouri? Where is MIssouri?

No, howitzer, what you found was someone using the word in a different sense.<BR><BR>Author: John Smith<BR>Date: 12/26/2000, 05:16 pm<BR>Message: Come to Salt Lake City for Mormons. Independence isn't even on the map for Jesus's landing strip. SLC is God's country. I wouldn't be too concerned about having religious assaults be an issue if traveling to the Kansas City area. <BR><BR>By the way, Hawthorn has a nice web site. &quot;Video game&quot; comes to mind. Now if I can just reload my Doom Howitzer, I could pick off the bigots.<BR>

Fodors as a big brother? I suppose, if that analogy works for you. But I've always seen it more along the lines of a third cousin with a thyroid problem.

No, Ira, I guess you haven't discovered it yet, and to sj as well, here's what you do.<BR><BR>If you look at the top of your post, you'll see that your screen name is now in blue. Click on it, and the left column of the page will change to show all the posts you have made or added to since registration started. They will be listed in the order you have posted them starting with the most recent. And each will be introduced by &quot;Europe&quot; or &quot;US&quot; or whatever board they were posted on. But when you click on one of those to see them make sure you click onto the title of the individual thread to bring up all the posts on that thread.

It's their site and they can do what they want.<BR><BR>My only complaint since resgistration started is that the site has a cleansed feel to it. Possibly some of the regulars have departed.<BR><BR>I definitely don't miss the petty fighting over everthing.<BR>

I agree with Myer that it's their site and they can do what want - I don't object to indexing replies by person, and like others have found posts I missed, etc.<BR><BR>Re the site being 'cleansed' since registration and/or fewer posts - I think some of that might be due to overall difficulty posting for the last week - I think the site will find it's own level in the next while and the fun posts will return. (but....they don't call me Pollyanna for nothin' - should have been my screen name!)

There is NOTHING I hate more than the incorrect use of &quot;it's&quot;, which I just did....arrgghhh....hadn't been interested in that edit function til now!

I agree with Elizabeth S -- the site seemed slower right after registration but seems to have picked up again. I'll bet anything there will still be trolls and funny threads in our future.<BR><BR>As for the ability to click on my name and find all my recent posts, including those on the Asia and Latin America boards, it's FABULOUS. Saves me a LOT of time when I want to see the new additions to a thread on which I've posted.

Marilyn, when you click on the name &quot;Marilyn&quot; you will find posts from other people that have the name Marilyn. All of the posts won't be yours.

HMMM? I think you're wrong, lynlor. Since registration there can only be one &quot;Marilyn&quot; here, so all the posts listed when you click &quot;Marilyn&quot; will be by that individual poster who registered that name.

Actually, lynlor, they have all been my posts and they have all been since registration. Since each registration name is unique, I think that will remain the case.

Personally I find that registration (and indexing since that's part of it now) has made this Forum very very boring. I used to look forward to reading some of the goofy stuff (skip the nasties) and now it's all gone. I used to count on getting a chuckle from something on the Forum, now it's more like a yawn.