Jim,

Please take this note in sincerity, and not meant to ruffle any feathers. I am no longer a Prodigy member myself and am not a chip collector so your articles wouldn't be of much help to me.

Regardless of what you are attempting to do with Prodigy and your articles, I conclude that your are doing the hobby a disservice in posting this sort of note here.

You mention that there are lots of Prodigy members posting here due to the addresses you are seeing on this board. If that's so why not E-Mail them directly?

You are forgetting that many of the collectors here on Greg's board don't have Prodigy and some cannot afford the added expense of adding that service. And some people don't live in areas where Prodigy service is a local phone call.

Jim, I know that you have a Prodigy account and cannot understand why you haven't also used it to set up a web site(maybe you have) where you can also include your articles there so all collectors can read them if you feel they are important to the hobby.

I suppose feel that your articles are more important to PROMOTING the Prodigy service than promoting the hobby.

Yes Jim, you DO HAVE THE RIGHT to write an article and post it wherever you wish. However, you're forgetting that posting your note here is FRUSTRATING to the collectors who do not have access to Prodigy and see that you have posted a message about it here that they can't have access to. It's probably more frustrating to the collectors new to the hobby and to new to being on line.

Remember, our new collectors and even old ones thirst for as much information as they can get and we need help all the collectors, NOT just a select few, in getting them all the information regarding the hobby we can.

I myself found this out a while back. I too attempted a similar circumstance using my web site. As you probably know, since 1976, I've posted all of the Nevada Gaming Commission Lists of Approved Chips and Tokens on my web site. There was one month where I left one off and only posted it ONLY to the CompuServe BB Library in a similar attempt. That was a month were I got loads of E-Mail asking me where it was. I soon concluded that I was wrong in my thoughts to limit this information to only those who had CompuServe accounts(in order to get more members on CompuServe), even though anyone can get a copy of the Gaming List from the Gaming Commission for $24 per year.

And sometimes I feel "we" are doing a disservice to collectors when when we have some very important information to disseminate and we forget to post the same messages on Chequer's message board that we've posted here. And there are other BB's on the web too we overlook not just Chequers.

Best Regards.