It has occurred to me that there are many people here I would be sorry to lose contact with and whom I couldn't contact outside this forum. I've created a new email address - my username, followed by 2, at google's mail service - for the purpose and put it in the public email slot of my profile (in the slightly encoded form I just gave, in the hope that the automatic spambots don't pick it up!)
If you feel the same, consider doing similarly, and saying here that you've done so? Remember that everything here is completely public - but gmail makes it easy to create a new address and have it forward to your real one, and I daresay the other free services do too.
