Joe - We can only communicate via mudcat when it is working. When it isn't, the fakebook page is handy.

As to secirity in general, if all members here had to give a verifiable email address to join or post, and validate via email, it would be easy to use www.spamarrest.com http://www.spamarrest.com/ (adding some additional user terms) to verify the sender identity and assert US based legal jurisdiction.