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Think of it like this, greyshade. The moderators have the same rights to your profile as you do.
Therefore, in order for them to be able to see your email, you also will be able to see it.
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Point taken, CharleyO... and so it must be.
But IMHO, my second question still remains unanswered.
As in... no problem if the moderators are privy to my email ID.
But why can't it just be displayed on my profile page? I can see my email ID there... and, as i discovered, so will each of us to the exclusion of the rest (except, of course... our 'big-brother' moderators
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However...
Most of us have chosen not to have our email ID made public.
By appearing then, as an icon on the topics page with a mail:to link (
one's own own email ID), its only purpose seems to be limited to serving up a boomerang-like thingy for some gratuitous self-indulgence.
On the other hand, a click on the messenger icon rightly provides a search field allowing for the selection of one's object of desire... as it were, other than self.
Hope this makes sense.