Yes, information is valuable...
but it is not uniformly valuable.

As a rule, I try to discourage contributors from sending links to information about stocks and bonds that appear on the web.

It is NOT because I don't want the information.

My central concern is my lack of TIME.

I DO want information. I simply do not have the time to follow more than a handful of links, no matter how valuable the information.

I know that contributors really do mean well. Sending links is so easy and there is so much information on the web.

Unfortunately, sending a flood of web links is like sending a stack of sticky notes with page numbers in every encyclopedia in the world. It would be good to have page numbers, but it would take a lifetime to follow up on them all. That is what happened when I accepted web links.

Links got out of hand. At one point, contributors were sending over 100 (!) links per week, mostly to eBay sales.

What contributors don't know is how much time it takes to retrieve and enter information from eBay auction links. I recorded my time expenditures and discovered it takes an average of 4.5 minutes to retrieve and enter information (serial numbers, prices, shares, dates, printed dates, incorporation dates, states of issuance, etc) from each link to an online auction.

I still receive a staggering number of links to rail-related sites. Even if I were independently wealthy -- which I most emphatically am not! -- I would not have the time to research all those links. Besides, many of the links have been sent many, many times.

You may continue to send links, put I will be honest with you. If the link is not focused directly on railroad stocks and bonds from North America, I will not invest the time.

Thank you for your understanding.