Well, it's not the not having a wants or trade list, it's the whole thing together, not providing a GW ID in the initial email, not wanting to give it once I requested it, then telling me they don't have a list up because they don't have the time to do it. I understand it takes some time to do. And one without the others, along with her wanting large amounts of seeds, large varieties, then getting rude, ugly and very angry when I requested her ID, all of it together was what raised flags. She seemed insulted that I would want to know her GW ID. Even outright told me that she wasn't scamming for seeds and had been around GW for about five years, but that she's not well known. After five years,I'd think that at least few people could give recommendations, even if they had no Rate and Review, etc. But I still need an ID to ask some of the people I know that are very active about them. And when I say large amounts and varieties I'm talking she wanted 14 different things and was dissatisfied with the amounts that I had. I think that generally my amounts are good, sometimes even generous. It was everything together that raised flags.

No, he sold GardenWeb to iVillage a couple of years ago.

Another vote for having a list of one's own postings; your profile page would be a good place, and is currently underused anyway. It would also be helpful to have the USENET protocol of the choice between collapsing and expanding threads, wherein you can see the names of all posters to a particular thread and the dates of each of their posts (but you'd have to click on the name to read what they posted). This is another way of "following" posters whose comments you are particularly interested in. Yes to a better search feature; Google currently works better than GW's. Yes to previews appearing at the end of the thread. No's to liking, quoting and signature files.

The only way I know to get email is to go into your profile and view messages. They also pop up in your regular email box, telling you that you have email. The email box at the top of the post here just alerts anyone of the thread. I dont think that one is needed IMO