re: TD needs a Personal Messaging system

PMs would have their pros and their cons

Pro:
It would decrease thread hijacks from excessive IMing, in a totally unrelated thread

It would be an effective way to contact a poster regarding tickets, phone #s, meeting for football games/concerts, etc.

Photos, inside jokes, etc could go there


Cons:
It would allow posters to gang up on other posters, and orchestrate board trolling

It would easily allow posters to harass other posters, and for creepwads to hardleg a little too far on female posters.

It would allow a way for people to blackmail posters (Someone finds out your screen name, signs up, and threatens to spill your TD secrets to your SO)

Essentially it would erase the anonymity of an anonymous message board