Sending email to friends [suggestion]

After creating another question, I noted again the invitation to send my question to "friiends" by entering (up to three) email addresses. I presume the intent is to invite friends who are not currently Hubdub users -- although there is benefit to letting other HD friends know as well (as Skipper proposed here: <http://getsatisfaction.com/hubdub/top...>).

To increase the promotional benefit of this, a couple of thoughts came to mind:

1. Include a disclaimer about use of the email addresses -- as is commonly done on other sites:

Disclaimer: Hubdub.com does not share this information or keep it permanently, as it is for the sole purpose of sending this one time e-mail.

If, by chance, you are going to retain the email information, disclose that.

2. Inform the user if their HD handle / user-name is going to be used, or if their full profile name is going to be used.

Add appropriate text and boxes to the profile page [settings] and/or the "send email page" to cover that -- for example, if the User Name is going to be used:

This invitation will be coming from you (TruthWrangler). But we don't know your full name and that is a bit weird for the recipient. You can go and add it to your profile first or you can just enter it in this box and we will use it for this invitation but won't save it on your profile.

Your Name: [ text box here for user entry ]

3. Provide a preview of what the invitation is going to say:

To: Friend@example.com

From: First name Last name @example.com

Subject: [Hubdub] (first name, last name) has posted this question on Hubdub!

Hi,

This is a question I just posted on Hubdub -- a cool site that ... promo blurb ...

Will (former) Governor Eliot Spitzer be charged/indicted with a crime?

If you wanna take a look, you can click on the following link, (or copy and paste it into your web browser). Then you can see what all the Hubdub is about!

<http://www.hubdub.com/e/Market/Will_f...>
[Note: The actual link is likely too long for effective email use. Can some form of suppression be used? (that is not my "area" ;-) ]

See you on Hubdub!

First name Last name

p.s. If you are not interested, just ignore this email. Hubdub won't bug you again and there's nothing special you have to do.

Ideally, the preview would be "live" -- however, failing that, have a generic preview displayed that shows what the message will say.

I haven't sent myself an email, so I don't know what it says. Accordingly, the above is a somewhat generic suggestion. The essence of suggestion #3 is to display what is going to be sent.