Actually Gizmo,
I think this will work perfectly.

I can use it to hide users emails, whilst I make a board-wide announcement that a spammer is currently trying to harvest their addresses.

This will allow them to hide their emails in the interim period.

Then I'll add the announcement to the newsletter to cover users that haven't been on the site for a few weeks.

2-3 weeks later - I'll lift the 'mod' and anyone who wants their email viewable will get just that.

Everyone's a winner! smile
Cheers mate laugh
d.