Can private messaging be enabled on the forum?

This would be helpful to users that have problems sending or receiving email from Jack. Some people may also prefer to communicate directly with others if the topic is a little too personal, off topic from a current post, or they think it will be of little interest to the forum users. It could also be used as a follow up to an answered post in the forum.

In some cases, with the permission of both parties, these communications can be published in the forum if they both believe that it will be of benefit to the forum community.

Private messaging can be enabled or disabled, so if a user prefers not to receive private messages, then they can turn that option off. Perhaps it needs to be turned off by default. I think you can also set it up to receive messages only from moderators and your buddy list and no one else.

Onthepath