Cheryle, Our primary goal is for the Merchants Forum to be a productive place where real business issues can be discussed, and resolved in a positive, respectful manner. Renderosity spends a great deal of money providing this site and it's resources to the members at no charge. It's only means of livelihood comes from operating the marketplace. There have been members who would undermine the marketplace to advance their own goals. There's nothing inherently wrong with that. We simply prefer not having to spar with those folks in the merchants forum where we are attempting to advance the business aspect of this site to the benefit of the merchants, ourselves, and the members of the community. It seems that our initial policy may have been overly broad so we are reconsidering it. Tim