A bit of background:
As the Forum grew from a hundred or two guys who knew each other to hundreds and then thousands who did not, members wanted to contact each other and it took up a lot of time and posts. Lots of guys were unwilling to post their email address as it gave away their name or employer, compounding the problem.
With the advent of hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc, members were able to get a second email address. To make contact easier, we required "Display Email" to be posted. It has worked well allowing guys to get together to buy and sell, etc. A very few dealers have mined these emails to populate their lists.
The only enduring pain has been this guy.
I cannot set it up so that you can opt in or out of "Display Email". I can disable the ability to see it by membership type. We have Guests (who cannot see it), Members, Premium Members, Mods, and Admins.
Shutting off Member's ability to contact other guys seem a bit severe as most everybody knows this guy by now.
What say you ?
