Oftentimes, I would like to send private email to a particular monk, but it does not appear that we have any such messaging facilities... could we have some means of contacting people off the discussion board? A perlmonks.org email alias seems to be the most reasonable solution.

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(jcwren) RE: Email to PerlMonks
by jcwren (Prior) on Jul 31, 2000 at 17:11 UTC
    Not everyone wants to share their e-mail address. I understand and respect this, although sometimes it would be convienent to do so. The current mechanism, however, prevents anything from harvesting e-mail addresses, since they're stored nowhere except in vroom's head. Well, OK, the PM database.

    The solution that I've found is send a /msg to the person, asking them if they will send you your e-mail address. You can include yours in the /msg so they don't have to expose theirs anywhere on PM if they choose.

    Personally, I'm content to put my e-mail address on my homenode, or as part of my signature...

    --Chris

    e-mail jcwren
      What exactly is the difference between vroom's head and the PM database?

      :)'s,
      Gryn

        We don't have to worry about vroom's head crashing randomly during the day.

        During the night, no difference.

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RE: Email to PerlMonks
by toadi (Chaplain) on Jul 31, 2000 at 18:40 UTC
    I know services that fetch emails from websites. Like people who pu on their site mailto's get spammed by these mail-spiders!!!
    If you need a email ASK!

    --
    My opinions may have changed,
    but not the fact that I am right

RE: actually
by Nitsuj (Hermit) on Aug 02, 2000 at 16:25 UTC
    Actually, we do, if you write a private message to someone, that someone will see it the next time that they log on. I learned the same thing when I asked how it would be appropriate to thank someone for a reply that I found particularly good.

    Just Another Perl Hacker