Originally Posted by
Kingslayer
I’m not sure what to tell you. Ask one of the United guys that was here in the mid 90s about the Compuserve forum. I’m pretty sure it was run by ALPA.
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Correct.
The CompuServe forum was an official UAL ALPA forum managed by UAL ALPA (not national). It later migrated to its own server (still operated by UAL ALPA) in the early '00s before being shut down for a handful of very good reasons and several dozen not good reasons.
The good reasons involved potential liability for illegal work actions during a period when the union was operating under a federal restraining order.
The bad reasons were internal politics, silencing dissent, and embarrassing (but factual) information involving some MEC/LEC players of that era. (Helpful hint: don't take a drop for a MEC meeting while posting on Facebook about the hunting opener while sending a proxy to the meeting.)
FWIW, the 'other' forum spontaneously erupted when the official forum was shuttered.