Although I would love to have all my players info, If I were the management of an online poker room I wouldn't give it out either. Imagine all of the spam and soliciting that you would get if every poker site you were a member of, there was an affiliate either trying to get you to play more or even bring you over to another program.

Regarding being able to contact our players this can be accomplished if we make it so that the players must be members in the forums as the password would be emailed every week via the forums. Just a thought.