My personal feeling is that if people really want the music they can read the damned thread. If they ask a question, they can read the damned thread for the replies. I don't e-mail people who are too lazy to do these things. I don't e-mail people I don't know, PERIOD, unless I have some feeling that they're genuine. It's just too easy to wind up on spam directories, and people often get addresses by writing, "e-mail me at..."

If other people feel comfortable winding up in the address books of strangers who may be e-mail harvesters, who may send spam themselves, who may one day be infected by a data-harvester worm that collects your address, or who sends your e-mail address un-protected in the headers of messages to everyone in their address book, one or more of whom may one day be infected with a data-harvester worm, then it's their prerogative. It's not something I'm going to risk, though.