Elliott has had other recent problems with judgment, too. Last month, he also pissed off the Flyertalk folks by calling them “unethical” for trying to book the dirt cheap “mistake” fares that are occasionally loaded on the computer rez systems.

http://ellipses.elliott.org/archives/2006/04/decimal.php

I would say there’s a very good argument that travel companies need not honor such reservations (if they quickly notify the rez holders that the price is a mistake), but is booking such a fare actually “unethical”?

That strikes me as being as silly as standing-room-only on jets!