On Sun, 13 May 2007 22:22:06 -0400, Bob Martin
wrote in :

the briefer kept saying "you can't fly down there."

The way I see it, it is the FSS briefer's role to provide information
and deal with flight plans. The briefer is not a Dispatcher, so it
would seem that the sort of admonish you received is inappropriate.

If they want to start having input about what you can and can't do,
then they can share in the responsibility of the airman's flight
planning for those flights for which they do not tell airmen what they
can't do, otherwise the should limit such statements to professional
opinions or suggestions, after all briefer's have no authority to
approve or deny aircraft operations.

Is that an unreasonable point of view?