I'd assumed the email address I entered on my profile was public. It was only on logging out to check just now I realised it wasn't. Perhaps I'm not alone. I've now copied it into the free text as well.
E-mail address in profile is a big secret for me also :) This is probably question for PG.
It would not have been nice to publish everone's email addr on the web for spam crawlers to find. But if you want to put an email addr (or anything else) in your profile, you can.
You could also make it visible only to logged-in users, or users with karma > n...
... or simple form for logged-in users sending your message as an e-mail to particular member :)
Yeah. I'd like that. A remailer service is ideal and mind numbingly simple. If there is a email spam problem I'm sure PG will think up a solution.