I have nothing but the highest regard for our moderator corps overall. A few may be slightly over-sensitive.

I do not post my e-mail address publicly. As a federal prosecutor (for three more weeks) who has sent people to prison for fifteen years and more, I prefer not to get spammed unnecessarily.

While most or all of the moderator corps is dedicated, hard-working, and temperate in thought and deed, there may be one or two who are prone to abusing their position or acting vindictively.

Not being experienced enough to know who is who, and never having met any of them, I prefer not to provide my own e-mail address to the moderator corps as a whole.

In fact, keeping this information private has a personal benefit to the owner of this site, in that he will not be liable if one of the moderators acts vindictively using that e-mail address.

If anything, what the current problem of illegal password access -- in my view the FBI and Secret Service should be contacted, as this is the second largest UBB bulletin board -- and disclosure of private forum communications exposes is the problems inherent in the transition from a small volunteer run board to a larger institution.

While the moderators may still be volunteers, they are cloaked with so much power delegated from the owner that it may very well be in his best interest to run background checks on the moderators.