What it does is take the email address out of the public eye from everyone, so there are no one trying to steal your email address or hacking into your personal accounts plus all the other benefits that it includes, spammers, scammers and such things. So I think it has a good sense to it. If members or non members can not see your email address, then it is a great safety feature which i really want to have in my site. I personally don't want my personal email address listed on any site that is very vulnerable to scammers or hackers. I block many everyday in my site already and have not even really started using it. Recaptcha is just another word for band-aid and really has not much effect or a lot of safety to it, unless your a bot and even then it is not 100% safe. I just want a safe site for members and their personal information more secure that what is available with most scripts. So maybe some developers can come up with some other alternatives for us to add some more safety features and not show email address or phone numbers when sent to a seller as a buyer, and in return from them. The members that post their emails and phones and want them seen, that is there choice, but I would like to see other safety features myself. This is one question i get asked , can people see my email address if i send them an email. They don't like it cause they don't know them, the are Strangers.