Jeff said: "Where do merchant's rights and customer's rights come into this? This is about Competing Brokers accessing a private marketplace discussion forum." No offense to you Jeff, but what makes it about Merchant and Customer's rights is the fact that certain individuals have been discriminated against and have had their trade restricted here... and there are concerns that this could continue to broaden at some point to other Merchants who could be viewed as having an affliation with the ones that have been already been restricted... ...restrictions... boil it down and that is perhaps the focus of these individuals... restrictions... and the one thing I've learned in this Community, people hate the idea that they might one day face restrictions themselves. Jack