I'm sorry because I know this hurt your feelings, and I hate it when someone hurts mine, but we are cautious, would you really want it any other way? The way I see it is that if you ask for people to write to you, anyone who reads this board can write, and that's not what you want, and that's why I don't go all over the internet requesting unhappy authors to write to me, and believe it or not, every time I get an email from someone I didn't write to, I delete it, you can't think PA won't try to get into this, because they will. I think they have fun with stuff like this, and continually look for ways to mess you up, so just be cautious, that's all.
There are a lot of us who felt just like you do when this first started with us, but give it a little time and you will see that you will calm down and it's going to be okay. Go ahead and write those letters, using your own experience before you get involved with other people and their experiences.
I think that one of the things that is good about this board is that we can combine things. You write letters and send your experience out there, on behalf of yourself, and once you calm down and read some of this thread, you will see that there are others who have already begun things, you just need to be here for a few weeks to figure things out.
Again, sorry for hurt feelings, just nothing wrong with being cautious.
I am the only one concerned with you doing this, as no one else said anything. These are just my two cents worth...
(By the way, I do remember the research you were doing, sorry about that-I remember, glad you mentioned it, if you hadn't, it would have kept bothering me)