EMail hiding

Email hiding is what this forum does at the moment, what it means is that instead of revealing your email address to others, anyone wanting to speak to you MUST come via this site.

What that means is that when they want to contact you:

• via email: Use the contact link on your profile page and fill in a form.
  
• replying to a PM: They can't reply to the email notification, they must login and reply to the PM here.
  
  

And so on... no matter what you do, anyone wanting to talk to you has to come to the site to do it.

Now this doesn't affect guests so much, they always have to use these forms... but it kinda affects other members.

I get about 10 emails a day from people who reply to PM's via email, even though the first line of that notification email is "DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL".

So... the question is... would you guys want me to disable all of that form stuff, and let PM alerts and emails be sent out from your email address rather than mine... so you can all just communicate in whatever way you want?

There is a risk of spam, but it's small. The risk only comes up if a spammer registers, contacts you, and you respond. I think that's the only way to get your email address... so it's not like we'd be just giving it out, we just wouldn't be hiding it when communication did happen.

Anyhow, if you understand the above, do you want me to disable email hiding?