Bob,
Welcome back. Be advised, private email does not always work well on the board. If you want someone to be able to email you, you may wish to provide an email address in your message. You can spam mask the address if you want, by telling folks to replace "zerk" (or any word you like) with an at sign, like this:
webmasterzerk337skymaster.com
translates to
webmaster@337skymaster.com
Kevin