Folks, if you register a valid email address in your profile (hit the "User Settings" button on the right near the top), other BB users can send you private emails WITHOUT YOUR HAVING TO POST OR OTHERWISE PUBLISH YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS. YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS REMAINS SECRET.

Somebody who wants to mail you just clicks on your nickname and they are shown the public part of your profile only (whatever you've elected to register) but not your email address. If you supplied an email address, the sender is asked if he/she wishes to send a private message. Pressing the button gets the sender a dinky little text box and "Send" and "Cancel" buttons.

The message is sent to the recipient's email address and looks like this:

To: undisclosed-recipients:;

From: Administrator (bulletinboard@moneyam.com)
To: Derek Lambert (derek.lambert@*******.com)
Subject: Private Message from Martini

The following message was sent by: Martini

The recipient can only reply using the same messaging system, so they never learn your email address (unless you tell them in the text of the message).

MM (Derek of IST and MoneyAM)

Thanks Mike,

Looks like I have been responding to the wrong address.

Regards

Stan.

Stan: Bullshare is almost certainly correct -- if Fred's email address is registered incorrectly with the BB mail system or perhaps out-of-date, you'll not receive a "bounce" message because of the anonymous nature of the internal mail system.

MoneyAM was designed to be Mac friendly as well, and should work happily with various browsers including Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox, Opera, and Safari. It doesn't care what the mail client or agent is.

Hope this helps.

Derek (IST and MoneyAM)