grenv: The only problem I have with timeouts is on the beginning of the year, when everybody gets the vacation days "refilled", and many times we have to wait about two months with the game on top of the "your opponents turn" list. The purpose of auto-vacation if to prevent timeouts due to "unforeseen" events, and at the moment, to prevent the exploit in vacation that was possible when vacation were scheduled...
And as for the people who take forever and don't timeout, as was previously (before this conversation) said if they are within the allowed time, they can take all of the time (I admit I often do that with games such as espionage or chess variants), although I also agree it's kind of frustrating in things like backgammon when there is only one possible move, and your opponent has only 3 or 4 games in his/her turn