Originally Posted by SkiAdcock
Not to take the thread OT, but in case Randy's reading this... As posted before on the email thread, I'm for enabling email again. Those who are willing will allow it to be seen (and accept the consequences of being potentially spammed - not that it happened much w/ FT before, so don't expect it to happen much now), and those who don't want it just don't have to turn it on. Problem solved - for both sides.
I'm on email constantly - I am not on FT constantly (well actually maybe I am but I shouldn't be
), so email access is easier for me. Plus when organizing a Do especially w/ several folk attending, PM becomes a major pain in the butt due to character limitations, limitations on how many can be pm'd at once, having to go to FT to read/send messages, etc, etc.
I agree on the e-mail option. I'm on FT a lot during the day and I respond to the PM's on a regular basis but find the PM process somewhat clunky, intrusive and not especially user friendly. I too prefer e-mail as a way to correspond with other FT'ers.
Perhaps this post should go in the "Suggestions" or "Technical Issues" Forums but I didn't really give this issue a great deal of thought until I read your post.