Where do you think is the best or favorite place to meet and interact with providers and/or hobbyists? Is it a certain website? A physical location? This maybe a moot point considering the location of this post, but I was just curious if it's The Place. Any thoughts?

I think that THIS is it, flyball - the First Amendment at its best - all the benefits and none of the risks of frank communication.

Although your inquiry suggests that it would be interesting (probably more for the providers than the hobbyists) to have a happy-hour sometime where everyone wears a label with their discussion board name . . . lol

Yeah, anonymous interaction with sexual undertones never felt so good. I was just curious what percentage of a provider's business has come from the internet.  

But, what's it matter.  As long as we have some of the best girlfiends in the country at the touch of our mouse and strokes of our keyboards, the rest is just chatter, right?