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Originally Posted by WebSlave
I am strongly considering terminating the option of members contacting other members via email, and leave only the Private Messaging system intact for member to member contacts outside of the standard functions of this message board.
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I would wholeheartedly support this.
There seems to be no downside, since users can set up email notification of PMs; users could even request that senders of PMs provide email addresses so that the switch from PM to email communications could be made without delay.
One benefit would be that users could easily see which other user is contacting them, perhaps reducing the scam attempts that come through email from people pretending to be someone or something they are not. This of course wouldn't help those folks who put their email addresses right in the body of their classified ads, but there will always be some way or other for people to make their own lives much more difficult.