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« on: July 10, 2016, 02:21:32 AM »
I can think of a dozen reasons why someone might prefer to contact the person themselves, as opposed to as through a proxy party / intermediary. Sorry, MLX, I can totally understand the reason why you would want to protect and discourage it, but as someone doing my own research, etc, asking you or anyone else to pass on questions just isn't the right way to go.
With that said, it is also very shitty to be posting someone's email address like that, especially if they were working to produce gray-area products. It is an invasion of privacy, and now the poor man will be spammed with dozens and dozens of emails from rabid fans, and most likely no one will be able to contact the guy in the future, ultimately hurting everyone.
Let's leave emails private, and if we need to contact someone, we do the research and leave it at that. Sound good?