Goodbye

PM systems usually enable blocking a sender. On other forums I have passed an e-mail addy to another member to enable me to send info. Cannot do so here

 ... and why would I want all & sundry to have an email address for me? People might want to contact each other off the forum for any number of reasons eg arrange a mutual meeting place without the rest of the forum being involved.

I set up an e-mail address that I just use for CT and a few members have contacted me through it ( and have been no problem) , so far I've had no spam or dodgy e-mails ,and if I did I would stop using it 

If I have read Rochelle's comment correctly about a PM system it seems that we will not have one anytime soon, if at all. Setting up a special e-mail address just to be used for this forum is a fairly easy option if people want to do so. It was just a suggestion as an alternative. I would have thought that if you want to contact people that you know that you already have their details. If it was first contact I am sure the Community Manager would be happy to pass on a message providing it wasn't a too regular a request.

David

A PM enables personal information to be exchanged and on the rare occasion to defuse a public situation.

EMail addresses are private.

It's all far too obvious but the CC have decided that they are not technically able to provide such a system.

No doubt by the new year we will have given up complaining and the club will continue to tell us how good things are

im afraid this is just more evidence that CC built their own requirements for this 'forum' and (pretty much) seem to have ignored most of the functionality requests made by members a while back, PM being very regularly mentioned.

im struggling to come to terms with Rochelle's comment that this system went through extensive user testing (or similar text) as it seems as soon as 'real' users we let loose on it (in the public glare of the live environment) it was obvious that there were some pretty basic flaws.

even now, there is not available to CT users (those actually testing and providing feedback on use of the system) a list of the issues that have been identified/recorded, nor a priority sequence in which these will be tackled, nor a plan showing which faults will be fixed in which release.

having requested CT users to nelp sort out this mess, the least CC could do is to provide documentation on errors logged and resolution progress.

how long will someone have to wait to find out if 'their' issue made it to the list, is being worked on, and will be delivered.....months, i suspect.

...and it might not have even made the list.....

all sounds a bit gung-ho.....

the double post issue has become a triple post issue....

Just excuses David. There should be no need to set up another email address for use here. As for asking the CM to pass a message, I tried that once, it would've been faster by asthmatic carrier pigeon and by the time the message had been passed on, the person that the message was for had long gone from the site we'd hoped to meet at.