Hi Ed, Some years ago you had The Sports Bar where ABers could make one to one contact privately.
There is a serious need for a similar facility, as some people cry out for a helping hand and those willing to help would be facilitated by something similar to the old Sports Bar.
Or is there another way?
Theland its easy. one of you creates a throwaway email address and posts it on here. The people use that email address to share real email addresses and then the creator destroys the throwaway email. To my knowledge, there has never been any Pm facility on AB and I have been around since 2002, before the sports bar was created. It degenerated into a nasty place.
pastafreak, quite right, it wasn't SAB. It was here in AB.
//There is a serious need for a similar facility//
I disagree. I do, however, think a personal message category would be useful, limited to one or two lines per post to avoid 'chat' or more. That would enable people to pass on email addresses, or direct others to particular threads.
AB Facebook has the disadvantage that it is all under our real names. Those who want to remain anonymous, albeit while still sharing emails, might not like that.
You could go to reddit, perhaps? Or 4chan. Quite a varied community, and if you look in the right places you can find plenty of places unsullied by power-hungry AB mods. Hopefully.