The reasons a forward to a friend link were left off our site are twofold. First, the vast majority of web browsers have a built in way to do this (mostly labeled as “send link” or “send link as email” under the file menu). Granted, that doesn’t help if you’re using webmail or are at another computer, but the same goes for our contact links on the site. Perhaps this needs to be rethought a bit.

Second, a lot of organizations have used the forward to a friend page to capture email addresses for their mailing list. We do not want to get names on our list in this way and insist that our list is by choice only. We don’t even want to give the impression that we follow that sort of practice.

So, those are the points that helped us make our current decision. That doesn’t mean it won’t change in the future. I appreciate your ideas.