Don,
I'd have no quarrel with the blinded e-mail address version if you want to enforce e-mail addresses. I have begun not to enter my e-mail address into the offered field (unless I have to) but rather put a slightly but recognizably rewritten form of it under my signature. That is to avoid crawlers, spiders and other such sneaky insects picking up my address for spam lists on their forage through web site after web site.
I'd have no quarrel with your NOT enforcing the Gentleman's rules - I just skip to the next thread when one seems to have drifted off.
Overall I think, Mike and you are maintaining a great site that I like to look in time and again, even though I am more into standard gauge, in modeling and historical interest (Santa Fe).
Cheers, Jochen
jochen(at)metronet.com