EMail Addresses - To Show Or Not To Show

[Jackie]

I was making a few changes in the board set up last night and I noticed that there is an OPTION to show member's e-mail addresses publically, or to NOT show them.

We've always shown them publically to encourage honesty, I guess. There were a couple of despicable characters though that bombarded a few of our folks with spam after seeing their email addresses here... WW will recall. I've heard that some of us may have deleted our email addresses from our profile for this reason.

Anyway, last night I took the liberty of changing the setting to NOT show e-mail addresses anymore. This is easily undone though. I can change the setting back quite easily. Tell me which you all prefer? Is there a consensus on showing or not showing email addresses?

Pls. advise me of your opinion.

Thanks,
Jackie