Let's ignore, for a moment, the issue of email addresses in the text of posts.
If it's such a disastrous hazard to provide contact information in general -- as you seem to be implying, opening posters up to being stalked and harassed by other posters, possibly disgruntled spouses, etc -- then why on earth was there *ever* an enabled field for that in member profiles???? Not to mention, up until this week, guidance regarding the acceptability of using same in the FAQs?
Why has that option just been taken away from us? Were the administrators under-protecting us then, or are they over-protecting us now?
Or might there be another agenda entirely?
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