I don't think I would actually use Node2Email, but the iea of having it around does not disturb me, if anybody finds a positive value. Something I don't want is one more email address - I have enough of them already.

About your second point, PerlMonks has a way to send private messages to users, and it seems to be working. Of course it works only for short pages, but in the end I could page you my email address and we could continue the discussion that way. What's wrong with it?