For those of you who are registered users, you can now send other registered users private messages.  You can either do this from your profile (link only works if you are logged in) or from the links displayed next to the comments of logged-in users.

A lot of times you SAB readers want to communicate with one another privately, so you send me emails asking me to pass them on (since I never give out the email address of SAB users unless asked to by that user).  This way I’m out of the loop and you all can communicate directly as you please.  Of course, if you don’t want to get private messages from a specific user, you can always block him/her from your profile.

When you get a private message you will be alerted via email (you can turn these notifications off if you want in your profile) and a message indicating your private messages will display on the sidebar when you’re logged in.

Feel free to try the system out, and post any problems you run into below.