In my little fantasy world, there are THREE clickies in every post by a member. One of course does a Usersearch. Another takes you to whatever info they have decided to make public as a profile (not necessarily everything they registered with.)The third one takes you straight to composing a PM from you to them, with the URL of the post that caused you to click to their personal page, optional as a subject line. If there was a technical alternative that made PM's as fast as thread posting, it would make a big difference.
~Susan