Greetings David,
You can see I am an old-timey user here, like 4 years 44 weeks. There was
nothing about duplicating forum posts with an email list and publishing
personal info at large. If this was the case, there would not be the
stipulation:
"Personal contact form
Allow other users to contact you by e-mail via your personal contact form.
Note that while your e-mail address is not made public to other members of
the community, privileged users such as site administrators are able to
contact you even if you choose not to enable this feature."
So if I am wrong here, you can see how a statement like that can mislead me
and others.