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To: jim clabaugh who wrote (5650)	10/26/1997 10:54:00 PM
From: Douglas Webb	Respond to of 14162

Well, I assumed it cost money to open an account with PBS, either investment capital or some annual fee. I don't need their services; I get my real-time quotes and do all my trading with Lombard. I only used PBS for their free options montage. Which brings up another point: if they made their free options montage members-only, it's because they don't want everyone using it. It would be unethical for me to republish their pages in that case, and it would probably violate any membership agreement I sign to get access. Even worse, it's probably my fault that they decided to make this change. Their webmaster probably noticed the 4600+ hits from a perl script in just a few weeks, and decided that was abusive. I haven't received any mail, though, and it would be easy enough for them to trace the hits to my site. Hmm. Maybe they're just greedy. In any case, I'm pretty happy with using CBOE's site. They're certainly set up for a heavy workload, and should be committed to providing this info for free. My page is working fairly well with their service. Doug.