For those of you who are concerned with us turning over information:
If there were in fact a court order, the owner of USAviation.com (not me) would probably have to comply. However, since our registration process was somewhat more loose in the past, it would be academic how much we could tell them. There are some registrations in the system that don't even have a legal name associated with them. And, in some airlines, employees are evidently granted free access to the Internet at work; so, tracking a particular computer's use might turn up hundreds of employees using it to post.
Re: suspensions for thread hijacking:
If the problems between AA management and AA unions are resulting in AA mechanics doing less than their best, shame on you. Peoples live are at stake. I would grant you that perhaps AA management's passion for cutting costs are causing items to be deferred that shouldn't be; however, I still fail to see how that is a contract issue.
What we as moderators have been objecting to is the tendency of some of you to turn
any discussion into a screed about the greedy management or a polemic about the poor downtrodden worker. The weather, the failure of health care reform, and the final score in the Super Bowl are NOT affected by the problems at AA despite what some of you seem to think.
Enjoy the boards, guys and gals, but please understand that there are other issues besides the contracts.