Profile email links

[nixer55]

Some folks wonder what the email links in profiles mean.  They're not an email address - right?

The link is designed to protect your address from malicious - often automated routines - which scour the Internet to harvest that kind of information  But when you use it here, the system will lookup your address and send the email.  Sort of like the old switchboards.

You can turn this off and on in the User CP - Edit Options.  Mine is usually off, but turned on for this screenshot:

Guests cannot see images in the messages. Please register at the forum by clicking here to see images.

So it's security feature.  In fact, the Forum doesn't use email addresses in any way, except for user controlled notifications, thread subscriptions, or password resets. Guests cannot see images in the messages. Please register at the forum by clicking here to see images.

[nixer55]

Should also note deleting your email address without first cleaning up your thread subscriptions, causes our system some needless processing.  As the mail server tries to process undeliverable mail.  Fake or disposable email addresses have the same result.  Or email accounts full, which can happen if you have a lot of thread subscriptions. Guests cannot see images in the messages. Please register at the forum by clicking here to see images.

Email services only exist for your benefit, so please don't abuse them.  Such failures are logged, and we are sometimes forced to block delinquent ones.  Which can result in your inability to login at all. Guests cannot see images in the messages. Please register at the forum by clicking here to see images.