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<blockquote data-quote="BSF" data-source="post: 1711187" data-attributes="member: 13098">Privacy?I know of at least one person here on the boards that values privacy and tries to retain tight control on how you can contact him or her.&nbsp; I respect that.&nbsp; Some of us adopt an online persona as a risk mitigation tactic.&nbsp; Maybe it can get inconvenient, but there might be ways to contact those people through a post as well.&nbsp; A second option would be to see if somebody that knows how to contact the person would be willing to act as intermediary.&nbsp; I'll use Macbeth as an example since he is friendly.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />If it were somebody that I knew Macbeth could contact outside the boards, I might send him a PM or email and ask if he could pass on a message.&nbsp; Either the message in entirety, or just a message that I am trying to contact the person.&nbsp; Then the recipient can decide if they want to allow me to contact them directly.&nbsp; In the not so distant past, I tried to send somebody a message.&nbsp; No PM, no email.&nbsp; I knew I had seen that person with an email address in a .sig at one point, but the .sig had been changed.&nbsp; Then I remembered an old thread where it might have been posted.&nbsp; I have search capabilities!&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; I found the address I wanted and then stopped.&nbsp; Obviously this person values privacy, so was my email that important?&nbsp; Since it was a relatively anonymous address I decided to send it off.&nbsp; (yahoo &amp; hotmail are what I consider relatively anonymous.&nbsp; In fact, I have a yahoo address for this screen name.&nbsp; I even check it a couple of times a month.)&nbsp; It seemed to turn out well overall, but I did have some concern that I might have been invading somebody else's privacy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BSF, post: 1711187, member: 13098"] Privacy? I know of at least one person here on the boards that values privacy and tries to retain tight control on how you can contact him or her. I respect that. Some of us adopt an online persona as a risk mitigation tactic. Maybe it can get inconvenient, but there might be ways to contact those people through a post as well. A second option would be to see if somebody that knows how to contact the person would be willing to act as intermediary. I'll use Macbeth as an example since he is friendly. :) If it were somebody that I knew Macbeth could contact outside the boards, I might send him a PM or email and ask if he could pass on a message. Either the message in entirety, or just a message that I am trying to contact the person. Then the recipient can decide if they want to allow me to contact them directly. In the not so distant past, I tried to send somebody a message. No PM, no email. I knew I had seen that person with an email address in a .sig at one point, but the .sig had been changed. Then I remembered an old thread where it might have been posted. I have search capabilities! :) I found the address I wanted and then stopped. Obviously this person values privacy, so was my email that important? Since it was a relatively anonymous address I decided to send it off. (yahoo & hotmail are what I consider relatively anonymous. In fact, I have a yahoo address for this screen name. I even check it a couple of times a month.) It seemed to turn out well overall, but I did have some concern that I might have been invading somebody else's privacy. [/QUOTE]

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