My 2 cents on the idea of the 'monk-to-monk' email system is that it might not be a good idea unless adequate controls were in place to prevent spamming. I'm on a chat system that does email redirects to your real address that you gave when registering (and is in your profile) so I could send an email to "user@chatboard.com" and it would get to them even if I didn't know their real address (providing they kept a valid email address in their profile). The problem is that this got out somehow and as a result, spam levels increased significantly. I ended up setting up a filter that trashes anything sent that comes in with "myuser@chatboard.com" anywhere in the headers. I don't miss much in the way of email because no one really uses the redirection much. Probably because of the spamming. Perhaps include something (if this were ever implemented) that would allow an individual to select not to receive these sorts of emails. While this might not be quite the same as your suggestion, there could still be problems. To paraphrase one of Murphey's Laws of Programming: It Is Impossible to Make Anything Spam-proof, Because Spammers are so Ingenious. ;-)

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