In general, I think you're right that the option to send a message to someone through the forum interface is not necessarily a bad idea, but I'm not sure the forum software supports that option. Of course this means that the moderators need to have enough power to act against users in case some users abuse the system. This might be a serious problem in a place like this, where you often get a lot of users which just come in and ask a small number of questions. I have seen this abused by some "consumer users" on LAVA, where you have a much smaller community, and I wouldn't want those users bombing my email with PMs.
In your specific case, I can think of a few simple options:
- Post a thread to the BreakPoint. Darren is somewhat likely to see it.
- Post a reply in one of his threads (e.g. a nugget). That's likely to send him an email.
- Post something to the LAVA forums.
- Since he also made some contributions to Info LabVIEW, you'll be able an email address for him in their archives.
Note - this is not an encouragement for people to hassle Darren. I mind posting this here less, because this board will get less traffic, but most questions can probably be answered through these forums by other members as well. I was in Darren's session as well (if you were there on Thursday, I was the one who sat in the front row and kept making annoying remarks), so I would guess I could answer some of those.
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