We are sorry to announce that we have been forced to disable this popular feature on our site. Many of you have been using it to alert friends and family members when one of your own gets recognition in our articles. Unfortunately, this service can be abused.

Let me explain. For several weeks, we were seeing occasional incidents involving commercial email, which we tried to address on a case-by-case basis. Yesterday, however, an internet "cracker" managed to distribute a large number of unsolicited email messages or SPAM using our scripts. For that reason, we have disabled our email feature until we are certain that it cannot be used for non ligitimate purposes.