To the question about having our email addresses made available to other members...my answer would be a resounding NO!!!  If that should happen I would immediately cease participating on any of the discussion boards as soon as I became aware of it.  And if it should slop over to the review section as well, I would cease submitting reviews.  The private message feature can be utilized for "off-board" communication very easily, even though it has bugs in it now & then.  If you could add something that would notify us upon login that would be an improvement, but I don't mind the extra step to check for them each time...that's certainly far preferable to my email addy becomming common knowledge.If someone actually wants email communication, they can always post it on the board for all, or give it out through the private message feature to someone if they so choose to do.That option MUST remain with each individual...if not we could end up with emails from people we either don't know, or whom we do not care to have communication with.  We all probably get enough spam right now...who needs another reason to use the delete key?

It has been our policy to never give anyone any of the very litle user info that we have. That will not change. Period, end of discussion.The private discussion feature wasn't written by us. I think that we will come out with a private discussion feature that we write in January.We are also looking at adding Instant Messaging. We tried this in the past, but we didn't have enough users. If may be a useful tol at this point.Thanks for the feedback.

I feel better knowing that you will not be changing your policy about keeping our individual information confidential. I think the majority would share my opinion in this regard.

I second that opinion regarding the privacy issue.....glad to see that is not changing!