If you want private messaging, e-mail to the poster, etc. <BR> <BR>I love this site; fortunately, it works better for me than it used to. (Have been upgraded to Netscape 4.7; 2.0 was impossible at this site.) <BR>

The entire site was down last night. I kept getting their generic "sorry we're updating pages" sign. Unfortunately, this is indeed typical for this site.

Thank you to all who've contributed comments to this thread. We do appreciate your thoughts, and we are listening very carefully. This site is tremendously important to us, and we *are* constantly working on improving it. So, all your suggestions for enhancements and improvements will not go on dead ears. <BR> <BR>We hope that those of you who contribute to these forums will stick with us as we continue to improve the performance. <BR> <BR>Sincerely, <BR> <BR>Aisling Brennan <BR>Senior Producer <BR>Fodor's Travel Online

Thank you Mr. Brennan, I really appreciate your post and the fact that you didn't delete the negative comments. <BR>I also really appreciate that people are free to say whatever they like (within reason, of course, no obscenity, etc.) on these forums. Fodor's seems to be a great champion of the First Amendment. <BR> <BR>Cal, a thread is the group of messages under a subject line. I was hoping that someone would give you a better answer.

Wow, humans really do maintain this site. I'm impressed. I thought it had been on autopilot since day one hence the failure to upgrade this site up to 1999 standards. This site has been around for 3 years or so and I have yet to see a single innovation since it's inception. <BR> <BR>Regards <BR> <BR>FSP <BR>

Noah, <BR>FYI it's Ms. Brennan, Aisling (pronounced Ashling) is an Irish name. <BR> <BR>Nonetheless keep those comments coming. We do listen to you, and we are working on adding those advancements. Stay tuned.

Wow, what a bunch of whiners... do you pay to use this site? Quit demanding. Have some PATIENCE. If you're so computer savvy, offer your services to correct the problem or better yet, just leave the forum. :-)

I love this site. It has the best information. We travel alot and I have received very comprehensive reports from fellow travelers. I have tried to use other sites but found them not to be user friendly. I like the set up of haveing the questions on the left side. I do not like the sites with single threads where you have to pull up each response. Ms. Brennan keep up the good work.

I'm sorry about that Ms. Brennan. I actually wasn't sure and should have said 'Mr. or Ms.' to be safe. Please forgive me.

Aisling, when will you be launching a more robust site? This site seems to go down at night fairly often. <BR> <BR>Mike

Gee guys, I'm not sure when you all are on here, because I very rarely get the "malfunction" page (Really, maybe 1 out of 30 visits) and I check here 3 or 4 times a day from early morning to late at night. I think it works pretty well. <BR> <BR>The only improvement would be to have Ms. Aisling Brennan greet us in person, like the AOL mail guy, "Good day and welcome to Fodors...." (In a lovely, lilting, Irish greeting.) <BR> <BR>Ok, Ms. Brennan, I'll go away now. But you did ask for "advancements". <BR>

Please don't change it to be the "threaded" model - those forums are too tedious to read. I love to just load the page once and be able to quickly scan all the responses as I scroll. <BR>This site does have a lot of technical problems though. I've learned to create my response in Notepad first (or at least save it temporarily to the clipboard since those error messages so frequently occur). Maybe just a sign of lots of use - this really is the best travel forum.

I HATE those threaded messages. And I,too, rarely have any problems with this site. <BR> <BR>This is the best thing on the overrated net.

For those "dedicated users" who haven't experienced technical problems...try logging in on any given evening. Chances are one if not all of the forums will be down. <BR> <BR>Herbert

It's funny that you said what you did Herb. I tried getting in here last night to plan a trip and kept getting an error message, all the Forums were inaccessable. <BR> <BR>