Many of us have shared email addresses recently, and the EDIG guys that are here, we did this years ago.
New members have limited PM's, so suggest you don't waste them, use emails.
When remote, PM's of course requires you to log in to Agoracom, an extra step.
If you click on the "edit my profile" tab at left, you will see at the bottom, a box to check for email notifications of PM's. I have it unchecked because I get so many, mostly EDIG, it's annoying.
Using emails is much more efficient...for me anyway.
Lets get some more new folks over here!