No stimpy, once I have someone's email address (which was a single click under the old system), I could store in my own electronic address book, make groups, etc., and it was easier, at least in my opinion. And didn't require my going through additional steps.

And yes, some could post & say email me, but because of folk traveling not all read FT every day or check every thread, and in some cases the Community folk have had to send out calls to others asking if folk know how to reach some of the people, something they didn't need to do under the old email system.

I, and others, believe that it should be our decision whether to have our email addresses accessible & to take our chances on getting spammed (which rarely happened), and for us, the old method worked fine.


stimpy, I think we both want to accomplish the same thing here, hence your original post in a dif thread saying what a pain it was to have to access FT/PM to get your messages (and one reason why this thread was started as well), and my suggesting you post in this thread.

If Randy's team comes up w/ a similar easy method, that's fine, whether it's one they design, one you suggest or another person does (someone else actually had a solution as well; can't remember the thread). Doesn't matter to me whose method they use, as long as the option is again available. And right now it's not. Unless you already had someone's email address in your address book, PM is currently the only method available to reach someone - and it's inconvenient & takes up time, which was both of our original complaint.